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Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was a leading 19th-century Post-Impressionist artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist and writer.His bold experimentation with color directly influenced modern art in the 20th century while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the ...
Charcoal study, c. 1891–3, Art Institute of Chicago [28] The inscription below the idol reads "MERAHI METUA NO | TEHAMANA". [1] This means "Teha'amana has many parents", a reference to Teha'amana possessing foster parents as well as her natural parents in accordance with the faʼaʼamu [] Tahitian custom (Gauguin had to negotiate with both sets of parents when arranging the marriage). [29]
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The painting epitomizes the romantic view of Tahitians made famous by Pierre Loti's Le Mariage de Loti. In that novel, Loti described his Tahitian bride's pursuits as extremely simple, "reverie, bathing, above all bathing". [5] The women in the painting bathe naked, removing their pareos, apparently unbothered by the presence of the fisherman ...
Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (Man in a Red Beret), 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Gauguin's Martinique paintings were exhibited at his colour merchant Arsène Poitier's gallery. There they were seen and admired by Vincent van Gogh and his art dealer brother Theo, whose firm Goupil & Cie had dealings with Portier. Theo purchased three of ...
Copy of Manet's Olympia, 1891.. Gauguin was an admirer of Édouard Manet's 1863 Olympia.He had seen it exhibited at the 1889 Exposition Universelle and commented in a review, "La Belle Olympia, who once caused such a scandal, is esconced there like the pretty woman she is, and draws not a few appreciative glances".
The Bunch of Flowers (1891) by Paul Gauguin. The Bunch of Flowers or Flowers of France (French: Le bouquet de fleurs [lə bukɛ d(ə) flœʁ]; Tahitian: Te tiare farani) [needs IPA] is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, from 1891. It is held in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. It was one of the first in his series of Tahitian works.
Born in France in 1848, Paul Gauguin was an influential Post-Impressionist artist whose work was influential on the Symbolist movement and on all of modern art for many years after his death. An extremely religious person, Gauguin focused most of his work on themes of religion and God.