a fictionalized account of his Tahitian experience. Day of the Gods (Mahana No Atua), one of the very few paintings Gauguin completed during this period, is closely related to his literary project. Set in a Tahitian landscape by the sea, the...
French artist Paul Gauguin's bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts helped him achieve broad success in the late 19th century.
Gauguin coined the term “Synthetism” to describe his style during this period, referring to the synthesis of his paintings’ formal elements with the idea or emotion they conveyed. Gauguin acted as a mentor to many of the artists who assembled in Pont-Aven, urging them to rely more upon ...
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Paintings And Artwork €150K Gauguin à Tahiti et aux Marquises(2010) Writer (text: Les textes du Gauguin son issus de ses livres "Noa Noa", "Oviri", "Avant et après" et sa correspondance) The Gauguin Museum(1997) Paintings Gauguin(1949) ...
At the age of 17 Gauguin joined the French merchant navy, traveling around the world for six years. After the death of his mother in 1867, he settled with his wealthy guardian, Gustave Arosa, who shaped Gauguin's interest in the Arts. He started collecting Impressionist paintings, and became...
Paul Gauguin was thirty-five when he made the momentous decision to abandon his lucrative career as a Paris stockbroker and devote himself full-time to painting. Gauguin's bold use of flat, unmixed color gave his paintings a strong sense ...See more ...
Alex Faulkner(http://toshidama.wordpress.com)also comments about Gauguin’s time in Tahiti by stating that“Surely though, his later paintings from Tahiti display all the characteristics of the floating world… the lazy, sexual undercurrent, the panoramas of available women, the absence of the mod...
❦ So here’s a glimpse of his work [believe me, I actually left out many paintings!] Cavaliers sur la Plage [II] (Riders on the Beach) ❦ “I shut my eyes in order to see.” ❦ Contes barbares (Primitive Tales) ❦ ...
On Tahiti, Gauguin’s unfettered joy in the island’s nature, native people, and figurative images soared, spurring a prolific output of paintings and prints. In works such as Woman with a Flower (Vahine no te Tiare, 1891) and Sacred Spring: Sweet Dreams (Nave Nave Moe, 1894), he deve...