Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Wheat Harvest
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Émile Bernard (French painter, 1868-1941)
Location:
repository: UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Location Note:
10899 Wilshire Blvd.; The Armand Hammer Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation
GPS:
34.059444-118.443611
Date:
1889 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Nineteenth century; Post-Impressionist
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
agriculture; genre; landscape; Hammer Museum; farming; peasants; Breton; Brittany
Description:
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-ors ay.fr/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-BERNARD-WH-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Wheat Harvest