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synthetism

Approach to painting that integrates and simplifies a remembered visual impression in order to reproduce it. Synthetism was an approach to painting favoured by Paul Gauguin and his associates in the 1890s, who believed that art should be painted from memory rather than directly from life. The style uses flat areas of colour, outlined with black lines, known as cloisonnism.



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