Talk:The Volpini Exhibition, 1889
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[edit]The artists had been denied space in the Palais des Beaux Arts at the Exposition.[1]
Émile Bernard was represented twice in the exhibition, once under his own name and once under the pseudonym Ludovic Nemo, whose works were described as peintures pétroles as the pigments had been mixed with petrol instead of the usual turpentine.[1]
Reference is to:
- ^ a b see McWeeny, R. (ed.) Van Gogh on Art and Artists, ISBN 0-486-42727-7.
I doubt that this summary meets McWeeny's statements (unfortunately, I don't have his book at hand!), and if the reference is correct, McWeeny's statements would better be reconsidered:
- Gauguin and his comrades were well aware that they could not enter the Exposition universelle through the front door. They not even tried, but looked for a sideway.
- As far as I see, there's no consensus among specialists in art techniques on Bernard's term peinture petrole, but the term points rather to an experiment with an adhesive than with a solvent or diluent.