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Paul Gauguin
French
1848-1903
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(born June 7, 1848, Paris, France ?? died May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia) French painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He spent his childhood in Lima (his mother was a Peruvian Creole). From c. 1872 to 1883 he was a successful stockbroker in Paris. He met Camille Pissarro about 1875, and he exhibited several times with the Impressionists. Disillusioned with bourgeois materialism, in 1886 he moved to Pont-Aven, Brittany, where he became the central figure of a group of artists known as the Pont-Aven school. Gauguin coined the term Synthetism to describe his style during this period, referring to the synthesis of his paintings formal elements with the idea or emotion they conveyed. Late in October 1888 Gauguin traveled to Arles, in the south of France, to stay with Vincent van Gogh. The style of the two men work from this period has been classified as Post-Impressionist because it shows an individual, personal development of Impressionism use of colour, brushstroke, and nontraditional subject matter. Increasingly focused on rejecting the materialism of contemporary culture in favour of a more spiritual, unfettered lifestyle, in 1891 he moved to Tahiti. His works became open protests against materialism. He was an influential innovator; Fauvism owed much to his use of colour, and he inspired Pablo Picasso and the development of Cubism.
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Hail Mary
1891 113.7 x 87.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Painting ID:: 1350
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Hail_Mary
1891 113.7 x 87.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Nevermore, O Tahiti
1879
60.5 x 116 cm (23 7/8 x 45 5/8 in)
Courtauld Institute, London
Painting ID:: 1351
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Nevermore,_O_Tahiti
1879
60.5 x 116 cm (23 7/8 x 45 5/8 in)
Courtauld Institute, London
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Three Tahitians
1899
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
Painting ID:: 1352
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Three_Tahitians
1899
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
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Nave Nave Moe
1894
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Painting ID:: 1353
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Nave_Nave_Moe
1894
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Afternoon Rest, Siesta
1894
Private Collection
Painting ID:: 1354
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Afternoon_Rest,_Siesta
1894
Private Collection
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Paul_Gauguin
French
1848-1903
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(born June 7, 1848, Paris, France ?? died May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia) French painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He spent his childhood in Lima (his mother was a Peruvian Creole). From c. 1872 to 1883 he was a successful stockbroker in Paris. He met Camille Pissarro about 1875, and he exhibited several times with the Impressionists. Disillusioned with bourgeois materialism, in 1886 he moved to Pont-Aven, Brittany, where he became the central figure of a group of artists known as the Pont-Aven school. Gauguin coined the term Synthetism to describe his style during this period, referring to the synthesis of his paintings formal elements with the idea or emotion they conveyed. Late in October 1888 Gauguin traveled to Arles, in the south of France, to stay with Vincent van Gogh. The style of the two men work from this period has been classified as Post-Impressionist because it shows an individual, personal development of Impressionism use of colour, brushstroke, and nontraditional subject matter. Increasingly focused on rejecting the materialism of contemporary culture in favour of a more spiritual, unfettered lifestyle, in 1891 he moved to Tahiti. His works became open protests against materialism. He was an influential innovator; Fauvism owed much to his use of colour, and he inspired Pablo Picasso and the development of Cubism.
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