“Painted in late summer of 1888, Paul Gauguin’s Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven depicts a fisherman and several intrepid bathers on the shallow banks of the River Aven in Brittany. The human figures in the scene are utterly dwarfed by the colorful landscape that surrounds them…This vivid, evocative painterly landscape represents a crucial turning point in Gauguin’s career, in which he began to develop his own singular approach to modern art…Through his collaboration with Bernard, as well as his ongoing correspondence with Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin became intrigued by japonisme—which refers to the European obsession with and emulation of Japanese woodcut prints, with their clear, linear articulations of color and shape. Gauguin was also moved by contemporary French Symbolism, with its emphasis on mysticism and spiritual meaning… Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven demonstrates this increased sensitivity to the emotional and psychological sensations produced by the Breton landscape.”

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