The son of an industrialist from the north of France, moved to Paris, Emile Bernard began to study painting in the studio of Fernand Cormon, when he was 10 years old. There he became acquainted with Louis Anketenom and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (who wrote his portrait).
In 1887, he met Van Gogh. At this time he used the technique ptsantellizma. In the spring of that year he traveled to Normandy and Brittany, where he met Gauguin (Van Gogh gave him a letter of recommendation) that led to that of puantellizma he moved to Cloisonnism (cloison - septum; outlines the contours of objects with dark outlines, a theoretical framework which they developed together with Anketenom.
In August 1888, Bernard moved to Pont Aven. This peridium is extremely important for its development, has led to the emergence of Pont-Avenskogo symbolism of a syncretism characteristic simplification of forms and colors, eliminating all that is not remembered with direct visualization.
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