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Paul Gauguin
French
1848-1903
Paul Gauguin Art Locations
(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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Painting ID:: 20549
The moon and the earth (mk07)
Painted in 1893
44 1/4x24(112x61cm)
The Museum of Modern Art,
New York
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Painting ID:: 20550
Portrait of the artist with a palette (mk07)
36 1/4x28 3/4(92x73cm)
Pasadena Art Museum
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Painting ID:: 20551
Maternity (my07)
Painted in 1896
36 3/4x23 1/2(92.5x60cm)
Private collection.
United States
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Painting ID:: 20552
Nativity (mk07)
37 3/4x50 3/4 (96x129cm)
Bavarian State Painting Collections.
Munich
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Painting ID:: 20554
Le Repos (mk07)
Painted in 1897
37 3/8x52"(95x132cm)
Courtauld Institute of Art,
Courtesy of The Home House Trustees.
Loudon
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Paul Gauguin
French
1848-1903
Paul Gauguin Art Locations
(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.
. Related Artists to Paul Gauguin: | Elisabeth Louise Viegg-Le Brun | Gregorio Lazzarini | Sir John Everett Millais | Samuel Kiss | Alfred Rethel |
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