8 He went more in the new direction of painting with solid patches of color and visibly distinct forms. Gauguin would eventually escape the distractions and stress of the industrialized European urban lifestyle and would search for a location of land that no one had stepped foot on that had a sense of simplicity and beauty. Gauguin's travels took him to Brittany, Provence, Martinique, and Panama, eventually settling him in Tahiti, an island in French Polynesia.9 In Tahiti, Gauguin not only found the destination he had dreamt of since childhood, but evolved into his artistic maturity.10 Everything about the place obsessed him: its warm colors, its exotic landscape, and most of all, its people.11 In Fatata Te Miti (Fig. 1) Gauguin depicts flat colors, abstract shapes, unbroken curves; all unite to make a united pattern of decoration.12 It is a rather unusual pattern that derives from forms in nature that are being stylized through Gauguin's eyes. The amount of lines and irregular color areas gives it movement, and yet still allows for the figures to boldly stand out. Therefore all of its randomness, the scene is suddenly natural.13 All of the flatness suggests space and its movement is calm and quiet.14 Another painting that Gauguin created during his first trip to Tahiti is Parau n ate Varua ino (Words of the Devil) (Fig. 2), which is quite similar to (Fig. 1). Besides the setting being quite similar the two paintings share marvelous pink sands and vivid colored accents.15 The same unusually shaped tree that appears in the top left corner of both paintings point to Gauguin's use of "documents", the word he used for sketches and working drawings that he had plans of including in paintings. In other aspects of the two paintings we can discover that they are quite different. (Fig. 2) is heavily symbolic since it depicts the life on the island more straightforwardly. The meaning of many of Gauguin's Tahitian paintings remains abstract and vague.
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...
