Girl dressing, Harold Gilman (1912)
Girl dressing represents the change in Gilman’s style made in response to post-impressionist painters such as van Gogh, Paul Signac and Gauguin. He had seen their work exhibited in London in 1910 and in Paris the following year. Gilman brightened his palette and began using closely juxtaposed and interlocking dabs of thick paint, resulting in a distinctive mosaiclike style. Here, Gilman has painted both figure and room in the same range of contrasting greens, yellows, browns, blues, mauves and pinks laid on in vigorously dabbed and broken brushstrokes.
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