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PRIME: THE
CONTRIBUTION OF ARTISTS, continued
| Vincent
Van Gogh experimented with optical mixes, breaking away
from the laborious use of dots towards the more liberal
use of hatched lines drawn around the form (See Detail
right) . Vincent also experimented with the colour exaggerations
of Fauvism, later to be exploited by Henri Matisse, who
reputedly was the "master
of colour" |
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Detail
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Self Portrait, circa 1887,
Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, Vincent Van Gogh Museum. |
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The
Reader, 1896, Edouard Vuillard |
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The Bath,
circa 1925, Pierre Bonnard |
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Edouard
Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard of the Nabis Group circa
1896 - 1925, straddled the gap between Post-Impressionism
and Modernism, celebrating richly applied colour.
Vuillard focused on pattern, where background surfaces
appear to merge with the foreground figures. |
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| "Sleeping
Baby", drawn circa
1910 by Mary Cassatt, hangs in the Dallas Museum of
Fine Arts. In my view, much of Cassatt‘s work, surpassed
the efforts of Degar and many Post-impressionists for
its detail and fluidity, in spite of an apparent restriction
of subject matter due to her social standing. Mechanistic
pointillism is not used here; the application of zigzag
strokes hatched with the surprisingly animated use of
colour allows the under surface colour to be revealed,
to create optical blends for the eye to mix. Note
in the detail, how an application of cerulean blue quickly
cools the shadow, and yet, maintains luminosity. I
find Cassatt‘s later work, a most valuable and "prime"
influence upon my most recent project using oil pastels
in the life room. |
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Sleeping
Baby circa 1910 
Detail
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