1884, Paul Gauguin, Cow in Meadow, Rouen -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Paul Gauguin painted this landscape of a cow and trees on a sunlit hillside while living in Rouen during a period of financial hardship. His use of slanted constructive brushstrokes reveals the influence of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), as well as the older Impressionist Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), who was living nearby at Éragny. Pissarro's advice to use more colour may account for this painting's chromatic mosaic of clouds, sky and vegetation, which anticipates Gauguin's later 'cloissonist' style of outlined patches of colour. The almost clichéd Normand motifs of apple tree, contented cow, and church rooftop were perhaps designed to appeal to the widespread nostalgia for the 'old France' that was widely perceived to be disappearing with the advent of industrialisation.
1884, Paul Gauguin, Cow in Meadow, Rouen -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Paul Gauguin painted this landscape of a cow and trees on a sunlit hillside while living in Rouen during a period of financial hardship. His use of slanted constructive brushstrokes reveals the influence of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), as well as the older Impressionist Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), who was living nearby at Éragny. Pissarro's advice to use more colour may account for this painting's chromatic mosaic of clouds, sky and vegetation, which anticipates Gauguin's later 'cloissonist' style of outlined patches of colour. The almost clichéd Normand motifs of apple tree, contented cow, and church rooftop were perhaps designed to appeal to the widespread nostalgia for the 'old France' that was widely perceived to be disappearing with the advent of industrialisation.