Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Wheat Harvest
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Émile Bernard (French painter, 1868-1941)
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Location:
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repository: UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (Los Angeles, California, United States)
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Location Note:
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10899 Wilshire Blvd.; The Armand Hammer Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation
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GPS:
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+34.059444-118.443611
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Date:
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1889 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century; Post-Impressionist
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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agriculture; genre; landscape; Hammer Museum; farming; peasants; Breton; Brittany
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Description:
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Between 1886 and 1893, Emile Bernard regularly took his family on holiday to Saint-Briac, a small Breton village between the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel and the Bay of Saint-Brieuc. He first met Gauguin there in 1886, but it wasn't until 1888 that the two artists met up at Pont-Aven, where they shared their research into the radical simplification of shapes, into abandoning traditional perspective, and using flat areas of color outlined by dark contours recalling the leadwork of stained glass. During his stays in Brittany, Bernard turned towards the day-to-day tasks of the peasants, like those of the harvesters in this painting, already celebrated by Millet. (Source: Musée d'Orsay [website]; http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BERNARD-WH-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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