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        <h1 class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Gustave Guillaumet (1840-1887)</h1>
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/guillaumet/Guillamet_TheSourceOfTheFigTreeInAinKermin.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Source of the Fig Tree in Ain Kermin</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Gustave Guillaumet was an Orientalist painter, and one that was passionate about his subject matter. During his life it is believed that he travelled to Northern Africa at least ten times. He was the son of a manufacture in Puteaux in France, and he initially studied under Picot, and Barrias. In 1857, he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts as a pupil of the Orientalist, Abel de Pujol.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1862, he decided to go and study in Rome. On impulse he changed his route, and embarked at Marseille for North Africa. This decision was to change the course of his artistic career. Despite falling ill on numerous occasions with malaria, he was to return to Algeria, and Morocco, time and time again.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1863, he exhibited a painting at the Salon, entitled “Evening prayers in the Sahara”. This painting was very well received, and was purchased by the State for 4000 Francs. It now hangs in the Musee d’Orsay. The purchase of this painting was to mark the beginning of a very successful career as an Orientalist.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/guillaumet/Guillamet_EveningPrayerInTheSahara.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Evening Prayers in the Sahara</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In his travels, Guillaumet was very much attracted to the southern extremities of Algeria, around Biskra, and the Hodna region. These regions still preserved ethnic customs, and traditions, as they were untainted by the European colonial presence. He spent much time with the people of these regions, depicting the people themselves, together with their dwellings, and the work they undertook. The sympathetic, and realistic way in which he portrayed them, was to lead to him being regarded as the Orientalist counterpart of Jean Francois Millet.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Throughout his artistic career, he was successful at the Salon. He won medals in 1865, 1867, and 1872. In 1878, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">A particularly powerful painting of his, entitled, “The Desert (The Sahara),” provoked a strong reaction at the Salon of 1868. It showed a camel, which had fallen prey to the vermin of the desert. Guillaumet thought the camel to be an exceptionally noble animal and he admired this animal immensely. This painting now hangs in the Musee d’Orsay.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">The painting entitled, “The ‘Seguia,’ Biskra,” also hangs in the Musee d’Orsay. This painting was produced in 1884. This painting differs from his earlier work, and shows Arab figures in Biskra accentuated against barren rock, and unwelcoming architectural features, together with the intensity of light. Guillaumet was very much concerned with the light, both in his art, and also in terms of how it affected the every day life of those living in the desert.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">He even wrote an article on the theme of light which was published in 1879. He discussed the harmony created by the violent oppositions of colour echoed in the cycle of life, and spoke of the oneness between man and nature.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Another particularly powerful painting of Guillaumet which hangs in the National Gallery of London, entitled, “Mountains in North Africa with a Bedouin Camp,” shows white robed Bedouins moving across the desert.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">From 1882, he began to exhibit pastels, and art critics have said that this medium with its soft nuances of colour was particularly suited to his sensitive observations. In 1883, he traveled for the last time to Northern Africa, and in 1886, he traveled to Italy, and thus completed the journey that he had begun twenty four years previously.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/guillaumet/Guillamet_LaghouatSaharaAlgerian.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Laghouat Sahara Algerian</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/guillaumet/Guillamet_ADesertEncampment.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">A Desert Encampment</div>
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