Van Gogh's Friends

> Video Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi. A visit to the Museum Toulouse-Lautrec and Albi, France.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Toulouse-Lautrec was drawn to Montmartre, an area of Paris famous for its bohemian lifestyle and for being the haunt of artists, writers, and philosophers. Toulouse-Lautrec constantly invented new methods, using color in large flat areas enclosed sharply and ironically.

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Emile Bernard

He made friends and foes among the principal members of the Paris avant-garde movement. He roamed Parisian night-life. He was deeply touched by Cézanne's works and fascinated by the weird and determined stranger from the North, Vincent van Gogh, with whom he worked together.

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Georges Seurat

Seurat instead allying himself with the independent artists of Paris. In 1884 he and other artists formed the Société des Artistes Indépendants. There he met and befriended fellow artist Paul Signac. Seurat shared his new ideas about pointillism with Signac.

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Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, ceramist, printmaker, and writer. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art.

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Paul Signac

Signac started as Impressionist, but he realized that Impressionism had reached a dead end. He therefore decided to go back to the start and reduce art to some sort of rules, as he felt Impressionism depended too much on instinct and impulse.

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> Video Le festival «Normandie Impressionniste»

Louis Anquetin

Around 1887, Anquetin and Bernard developed a painting style that used flat regions of color and thick, black contour outlines. This style, named cloisonnism by critic Edouard Dujardin, was inspired by both stained glass and Japanese ukiyo-e.

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John Peter Russell

Russell had met Vincent Van Gogh in Paris and formed a friendship with him. Van Gogh spoke highly of Russell's work, and after his first summer in Arles in 1888 he sent twelve drawings of his paintings to Russell, to inform him about the progress of his work.

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Charles Laval

Charles Laval was a French painter who was a contemporary and friend of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. Gauguin created a portrait of him in 1886 looking at one of Gauguin's unfinished sculptures entitled "Still Life with Profile of Laval".

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