Head of a Young Breton Woman
1892
Meet a young Breton woman caught in a moment of deep thought, her heavy eyelids and downward gaze suggesting a world of inner worry. Emile Bernard wraps her in a traditional blue headdress against a background that looks like a mossy, textured wall with a mysterious white shape floating by. Bernard was basically the 'third musketeer' of Post-Impressionism, hanging out with Van Gogh and Gauguin and helping invent a style that looked like stained glass windows. While this piece feels softer and more atmospheric than his usual bold outlines, it still captures that revolutionary spirit of artists escaping Paris for the French countryside.
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