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| Artist | Paul Gauguin |
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| Year | 1888 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 72.2 cm × 91 cm (28.4 in × 35.8 in) |
'Vision after the Sermon' is almost a traditional narrative. An attempt to use religious themes to break with the realist programme of Impressionism.Feneon's phrase for Gauguin's work was 'distanced creations', and this stresses both the imaginative invention of the subject and the distance put between the spectator and the peasant women. Gauguin relies on the steretype of the gullible and priest-ridden religiosity of women and the Parisian's view of the peasantry as simple and superstitious. The painting's narrative clearly indicates the distance of the metropolitan tourist from the people amongst whom he painted.
To achieve an aesthetic synthesis between artist and subject, the Synthetist artist must dominate rather than be submissive to nature. This work's equal engagement with 'vision' and the 'visionary' separate it from the Impressionist or Realist painting and its reliance on fields of vibrant color bounded by artificially exaggerated contours startled young artists.
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