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  1. synthetismnoun

    a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas

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  1. Synthetism

    Synthetism is a term used by post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been connected to the term Cloisonnism, and later to Symbolism. The term is derived from the French verb synthétiser (to synthesize or to combine so as to form a new, complex product).

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  1. synthetism

    Synthetism is an art term referring to a genre or style in which themes, forms, colors, and contours are depicted in a simplified or symbolic manner. It is often associated with the late 19th-century art movement, Post-Impressionism, where artists such as Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard sought to synthesize or combine the subject's essence with the artist's feelings and aesthetic values, rather than merely replicating the natural world.

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  1. Synthetism

    Synthetism is a term used by post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been connected to the term Cloisonnism, and later to Symbolism. The term is derived from the French verb synthétiser. Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and others pioneered the style during the late 1880s and early 1890s. Synthetist artists aimed to synthesize three features: ⁕The outward appearance of natural forms. ⁕The artist’s feelings about their subject. ⁕The purity of the aesthetic considerations of line, colour and form. In 1890, Maurice Denis summarized the goals for synthetism as, The term was first used in 1877 to distinguish between scientific and naturalistic impressionism, and in 1889 when Gauguin and Emile Schuffenecker organized an Exposition de peintures du groupe impressioniste et synthétiste in the Café Volpini at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. The confusing title has been mistakenly associated with impressionism. Synthetism emphasized two-dimensional flat patterns, thus differing from impressionist art and theory.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Synthetism in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Synthetism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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