Cloisonnism

Cloisonnism is a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours.

The term was coined by critic Édouard Dujardin on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants, in March 1888.

The name evokes the technique of cloisonné, where wires (cloisons or "compartments") are soldered to the body of the piece, filled with powdered glass, and then fired.

], Gauguin reduced the image to areas of single colors separated by heavy black outlines.

In such works he paid little attention to classical perspective and eliminated subtle gradations of color—two of the most characteristic principles of post-Renaissance painting.