The term primitivism was first defined by the Websters Dictionary 1934 as a "belief" in the superioty of primitive life which, implies a " return to nature!" Primitive refers to someone or something less complex or less advanced than the preson or thing that it is being compared with. The primitive can be seen as simple and naive, as in childlike.
To look at Gauguin's influence of primitivism on modern art, it is important to understand that his focus was not to understand the primitive but more about his needs to reject western civilization. With the spread of industrialisation and with this materialism, Gauguin became very restless with urban life in Paris. It is his great need to escape and his search for happiness that attracts him to a more simple lifestyle. Part of his attraction could be his memories of his childhood where his life was less stressful. Gauguin's rejection of western Art is explained in his letter, " I have gone back, further back tehn the horses of the Parthenon. as far back as Dado of my babyhood, the good rocking horse.".
Gaugions work moves away from impressionism quickly as he borrowed many influences from several sources around him. He borrowed from feloow impressionist artists, Japenese woodcuts, Egyptians, Medievil and of course the Primitive. In Europe at this time there was a growing fascination for their tribal neighbours and artefacts. Museums werer starting to pop up so to house the states collections of these art forms Gauguin visitied these exhibitions and along with other artstist he was seduced by the exotism, the romantic of a remote life in Paradise.
Symbolist music and poetry was aslo emerging at this time. French Poet Albert Aurcier in his poems "L'Eavre Maudit" represented artists who were breaking away from traditional concepts of realism, " Darggin the ball and chain of our denied masterpieces!" and " Lets wander by night, alone without lamb or candle.
Who is Paul Gauguin? ... 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. ... Gauguin tried to show a natural innocence to his sexual relationships with teenage girls. ...
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. ... This life of luxury in an exotic paradise haunted Gauguin. ... The meaning of many of Gauguin's Tahitian ...
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. ...
One of the most enthusiastic painters to travel to far away cultures was Paul Gauguin. ... Gauguin loved the presence of nature and natural form and a longing to travel to far-away, exotic places. ... Gauguin traveled to Tahiti in 1891 to experience the native ways. ... Also, to the left side Gauguin includes one of the Buddhist type idols he wanted to recreate. ... It is a long mural filled with coed nudes embracing nature much like Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? ...
Édouard Manet's Olympia and Paul Gauguin's Nevermore are two valuable examples of the mastery of the recline nude. ... Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1891 which transformed his style of painting and influenced him for the years to come. ... 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...
It was more intense than the scientific colour of Seurat and the non - descriptive colour of Gauguin and van Gogh. The Fauves wished to accomplish the final liberation of colour towards which Seurat Gauguin and van Gogh had been experimenting. ... They wished to use violent colours, squeezed directly from the tubes not to describe objects in nature (as traditional artists had done) , not to set up retinal vibrations (Seurat) , not to accentuate a romantic or mystical subject (van Gogh and Gauguin) but to build up new pictorial values apart from these . ... They tried to escape the r...
"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...
