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GAUGUIN PAUL
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Paul Gauguin
(Paris 1848 - Hiva Oa 1903)
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Gauguin
Paul (1848-1903), was a French painter. Decorative paintings He
also became noted for his ceramics, scupltures, and woodcuts. In his
highly decorative paintings, Gauguin deliberately distorted nature by
enclosing broad, flat areas of color with heavy contours. Gauguin style
greatly increased the methods by which artists could express themselves.
His paintings influenced both the fauves and the German expressionists
during the early 1900's. Early life Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was born
in Paris. He went to sea at the age of 17 as a cadet in the merchant
marine but did not pursue a naval career. Instead, he went into banking
and became a successfull financier. In 1873, Gauguin married Mette
Sophia Gad, the daughter of a Danish minister. They had five children.
Soon after his marriage, Gauguin began painting and collecting pictures.
In 1883, the banking industry suffered a crash, which Gauguin used as an
excuse to abandon his business for painting. Camille Gauguin's
early paintings resemble the works of the French artist Camille Corot
and Camille Pissarro. As Gauguin gained experience, he used brighter,
richter colors and emphasized pattern, rather than three dimensional
figures and objects. But he could not sell any pictures and had
difficulty supporting himself and his family. He quarreled with his wife
over money, and they separated in 1885. In 1888, Gauguin moved to
Brittany in northwestern France. There, he met the artist Emile Bernard.
The two men formulated a philosophy and style of art that became known
as synthetism. Synthetism stressed simplified form. intense color, and
decorative effects, all of which are reflected in Gauguin's later
paintings. Later life Gauguin admired innocence and directness in
people. He thought he could find these qualities in people who were
untouched by modern civilization. His search for such people took him to
Tahiti, where he lived from 1891 to 1893. He moved back to France in
1893 but returned to the South Seas permanently in 1895. He again
settled in Tahiti and avoided the European settlers there. In his
paintings, Gauguin idealized the peoples of the South Sea Islands.
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He portrayed them as gentle and passive,
moving as if in a dream. He painted the rich tropical settings in
brilliant pure colors. Gauguin gave many of his paintings curious
titles, such as Where Do We come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
This picture is a good example of Gauguin's colorful and decorative
style. Gauguin became seriously ill in the 1890's. He moved to the
Marquesas Islands in 1901 and died there in 1903. His last painting
seems the final statements of a homesick, desperately ill man. It
portrays a landscape of Brittany in winter.
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The Gauguin's work of art
§ "The White Horse" 1898 Louvre Paris
§ "Tahitian Women, on the Beach" oil on canvas 1891 Musée d'Orsay Paris
§ "Nave, Nave Moe, Miraculous Source" 1894 Hermitage Museum St.
Petersburg
§ "The Yellow Christ" 1889 oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo NY
§ "M.Loulou" 1890 oil on canvas Barnes Foudation Merion
§ "Les Alyscamps, Arles" 1888 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay
§ "Still Life with Three Puppies" 1888 oil on canvas The Museum of
Modern Art New York
§ "The Swineherd" Brittany 1888 oil on canvas Los Angeles Country Museum
of Art
§ "Spirit of the Dead Watching" 1892 oil on burlap mounted on canvas
Albright Knox Art Gallery Buffalo NY
§ "Arearea Joyousness" 1892 Musée d'Orsay Paris
§ "Portrait of the Artist with the Idol" c. 1893 oil on canvas McNay Art
Institute San Antonio
§ "Self-portrait" c. 1893-94 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay Paris
§ "Breton peasant women" 1894 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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