Haystacks In Brittany by Paul Gauguin Otto Freundlich A palette of pale gold

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Haystacks In Brittany by Paul Gauguin Otto Freundlich A palette of pale goldHaystacks in Brittany was painted during Gauguin's formative Pont Aven period, when the Breton countryside became the laboratory for a new pictorial language. Where the Impressionists would have dissolved the haystacks into light, Gauguin solidifies them heavy rounded forms pressing into a vivid field, painted in flat colour with dark outlines that give the scene an almost ceremonial presence. The result is a landscape that feels both observed and