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    Paul Gaugin
    Paul Gaugin
    Paul Gaugin
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    Paul Gaugin

    By Sandra Forty

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    Gauguin’s paintings are redolent of the South Sea islands, full of exotic women, vibrant flora, and brilliant color. In addition, his scenes range from normal life in France’s Brittany, to Provence where he painted and lived briefly with Vincent van Gogh, to French Polynesia. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848. After Napoléon III became the president of France, Gauguin’s family left for Peru in December 1849. They remained there four years at which point they returned to Paris. An early exposure to a non-European lifestyle and culture undoubtedly opened Gauguin’s mind to his later fascination with the Caribbean and with Tahiti and the peoples of those islands he portrayed so eloquently. Gauguin, a banker, started painting in his spare time. He never had any formal art training but set about painting as a hobby with commendable amateur skill. His first paintings were inspired by Corot and the Barbizon School and featured romantic naturalist subject matter. He soon aligned himself with the Impressionists, but is now labeled by art historians as a Post-Impressionist. Gauguin called himself a Synthesist. His technique was often called Cloisonnisme.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTAJ Books International
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781844062935
    Paul Gaugin
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    Sandra Forty

    Sandra Forty is a graduate of London University where she studied medieval and early modern history, including a spell at the Courtauld Institute learning about Renaissance art from Professor Gombrich. Since then she has worked as a journalist in London, then as a book editor and writer. She is the author of a number of books, most on art and architecture. Sandra lives in south Devon with her husband, children and many cats.

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      Paul Gaugin - Sandra Forty

      Published by TAJ Books International LLC 2013

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      1848-1903

      Gauguin's paintings are redolent of the South Sea islands, full of exotic women, vibrant flora, and brilliant color. In fact, Gauguin was so taken with the Tropics that he spent the last years of his life in French Polynesia, partly for its exoticism–he wanted to paint real savages living an authentic, primitive existence–and partly to escape the taxman and the mundanities of civilized European life.

      Now labeled by art historians as a Post-Impressionist, Gauguin–dead before the term was even coined by the art critic Roger Fry–called himself a Synthesist. His technique was often called Cloisonnisme. It echoed Symbolism in the way that naturalistic representation was abandoned so that a familiar subject was presented as strange and unfamiliar or the unfamiliar was presented as mundane. The intent was to make the observer feel comfortable with the subject but also vaguely uncertain of what was being seen. Gaugin's Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, painted in 1888, is one of the clearest examples of the genre. This new direction with its anti-mystical subject matter shocked the painter Pissarro, a friend of Gauguin, and when Gauguin offered the painting to a church near Pont-Aven the priest refused

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