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cloisonnism

In painting, a technique used by the French Symbolist painters, notably Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard (1868–1941). Cloisonnism is characterized by areas of flat colour surrounded by heavy outlines. Both Bernard and Gauguin argued about who invented the technique.



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Technical vocabulary such as cloisonnisme and stiacciato are defined as they are used; diagrams illustrate perspective; maps trace the travels of the artists.
In his beginnings, Munch reflected and was a creature of his time, a genius born in 1863, using the tools provided by such mentors as Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Boecklin, Ensor and Liebermann - all more or less his contemporaries, as were the fashionable fads of Art Nouveau and Cloisonnisme.
 
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