In France, starting in the late nineteenth century, two significant artistic movements were engineered. Impressionism was generated to capture a response or feeling for the viewer. The style of Impressionism had a focus on the momentary effect of light, nature, and movement. Post-Impressionism was the reaction to Impressionism. The artists of Post-Impressionism focused more on the symbolic content, visual design and structure. Paul Gauguin was one of the few leaders that led Post-Impressionism.1 Eventually Gauguin would completely turn away from nature and look to his imagination seeking creativity from his inner self.2 Paul Gauguin's Post-Impressionist background influenced the primitive quality of his paintings as he transitioned into the new art form of Symbolism. .
Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848, during the Revolution.3 His family would immediately move to Peru to escape the Revolution. His father, Clovis, who was a journalist died on the journey to South America. His mother, Aline Marie, and his siblings stayed with his grandparents in Lima until he was six. His grandparents were wealthy Peruvian settlers due to the intermarriage relationship with Inca nobles. This life of luxury in an exotic paradise haunted Gauguin. Eventually he returned to France as he served in the merchant marine and French navy. After his time in the French navy his guardian, Gustave Arosa, got him a job on the Paris stock exchange.4 Arosa was an enthusiast for Courbet, Delacroix, Corot, and Daumier and had a private collection of these various artists' work.5 Gauguin settled down to a bourgeois life, marrying a Danish governess, Matte Gad, in 1873; she bore him five children.6 By 1879, Gauguin himself started to collect art, mostly Impressionist work, and he had the chance to work with Camille Pissarro, who encouraged him tremendously.
The early art of Gauguin developed from Impressionist foundation, but he went without the Impressionistic way of painting with natural colors and imagery.
Who is Paul Gauguin? ... It is these questions Abigail Solomon-Godeau explores in her article "Going Native: Paul Gauguin and the Invention of Primitivist Modernism." The story of Gauguin's life is shrouded in mystery. ... Gauguin claimed to have "returned to origins" both artistically and spiritually. ... By the time Gauguin had arrived barely anything remained of the original Tahitian culture. ...
One of the most enthusiastic painters to travel to far away cultures was Paul Gauguin. ... Gauguin traveled to Tahiti in 1891 to experience the native ways. ... Paul Gauguin's best known piece that personifies his love of natural culture is called Where Do We Come From? ... Also, to the left side Gauguin includes one of the Buddhist type idols he wanted to recreate. ... As Paul Gauguin traveled and experiences native cultures in the early 1890's, the trend carried over through the late 1900's. ...
Édouard Manet's Olympia and Paul Gauguin's Nevermore are two valuable examples of the mastery of the recline nude. ... Paul Gauguin's version of a recline nude is expressed in Nevermore, a 1 ft. 11⅞ in. by 3 ft. 9⅝ in. painting made in 1897. ... His use of bright patterns and silhouettes are examples in which Gauguin's travel did mark his painting. ... The atmosphere created by Gauguin is sinister and silent. Both Manet and Gauguin exploited the reclining nude in various ways. ...
In the following essay, I shall compare Georges Seurat's "Une Baignade à Asnieres" and Paul Gauguin's "The Vision after the Sermon". ... Paul Gauguin's "Vision after the Sermon" show's the primitive and fundamental aspect of art. In defining primitivism when it resembles Gauguin's work, is that its overly simplified in every way the painting being simply made without the need of complete and thorough detail to explain the Gauguin's thought process of the spectator. ... In the Gauguin's painting the people look as if they are coming from church or are curre...
During the period of time that he has lived in Paris, the external environment was filled with new style that van Gogh has never experienced- Impressionism and postimpressionism. ... In Paris, He encountered with many influential impressionist, such as Toulouse-Lautre, Bernard, Pissarro, Gauguin and many more. ...
Gauguin According to the introduction, Gauguin was a part of the subjectivist movement which belonged to artists who rejected realism in their work. ... That being said, Gauguin's style is far from rigid. ... Van Gogh's opinion on Gauguin is fascinating given their tumultuous history. He describes Gauguin as a "curious artist" and an "alien.... " There seem to be many similarities between Van Gogh and Gauguin. ...
With the spread of industrialisation and with this materialism, Gauguin became very restless with urban life in Paris. ... Gauguin was also influenced by Bernard. ... This concept must have helped cement in Gauguin's mind for the need to live as a "sauvage," ",a peasent" as he could return to childhood. ... Gauguin decided to live in Brittany, still in France, an artist colony where he could live as a peasant. ... Gauguin has used the downward perspective of a tree track to divide the scene. ...
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French artist. Quoted in: Huneker, Pathos of Distance, p. 128. What is Art? This very same topic has been on the minds of many great people for many years. Just what exactly is art? Art is a form of expression. It is beautiful, u...
