Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903)
Paul Gauguin, more than any of the other Impressionist painters has become a romantic symbol of the artist as a rebel against society.
His life was filled with wandering, first joining the merchant marine, then in the French Navy, to a successful life as a stockbroker in Paris. Then, in 1883, he suddenly left his bourgeois existence to paint full time.
Gauguin always searched for far-off exotic places, a pursuit to abandon Western culture to return to a simpler, more elemental existence. In him was a desire to achieve an expression that approaches truth by discarding the constraints of tradition, to return to the more primal state of feeling.
The importance of Gauguin to modern art is his expression of remembered experiences rather than in the momentary perceptual experience, a “synthesis.”
Less known of Gauguin are his other works in ceramics, woodwork, sketches and engravings.
Painting:
Jeune Bretonne assise, 1886, Charcoal and watercolor on paper
Musée du quai Branly, Paris
Paul Gauguin, more than any of the other Impressionist painters has become a romantic symbol of the artist as a rebel against society.
His life was filled with wandering, first joining the merchant marine, then in the French Navy, to a successful life as a stockbroker in Paris. Then, in 1883, he suddenly left his bourgeois existence to paint full time.
Gauguin always searched for far-off exotic places, a pursuit to abandon Western culture to return to a simpler, more elemental existence. In him was a desire to achieve an expression that approaches truth by discarding the constraints of tradition, to return to the more primal state of feeling.
The importance of Gauguin to modern art is his expression of remembered experiences rather than in the momentary perceptual experience, a “synthesis.”
Less known of Gauguin are his other works in ceramics, woodwork, sketches and engravings.
Painting:
Jeune Bretonne assise, 1886, Charcoal and watercolor on paper
Musée du quai Branly, Paris
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