Paul Gauguin Art
Gauguin, Paul (June 7, 1848, Paris - May 8, 1903, Marquesas
Islands, French Polynesia), one of the leading French painters of the
Postimpressionism period, whose development of a conceptual method of
representation was a decisive step for 20th-century art. After
spending a short period with Vincent van Gogh in
Arles (1888), Gauguin increasingly abandoned imitative art for
expressiveness through color. From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti
and elsewhere in the South Pacific.
Gauguin said himself about his drawings that "It always seems to me that something is missing: the color." Gauguin's style was characterized by the use of large flat areas of non-naturalistic color. Gauguin's bold experiments in coloring led directly to the 20th-century Fauvist style in modern art. His strong modeling influenced the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch and the later expressionist school.
Gauguin's painting technique was quite different from both that of the Impressionists, who applied their colors in small, opaque dabs, and that of Van Gogh, who used thick impastos and bold, expressionistic brushstrokes. Gauguin's paintings in the main are characterized by broad areas of color, relatively flat but nevertheless containing subtle variations of hue that give them a rich glow. He often added wax to his paints to give them extra smoothness and flow. Sometimes parts of backgrounds were applied with a palette knife and then overlaid with thin, translucent paint put on with a brush.
Paul Gauguin lived in Tahiti from 1891 to 1893, and again from 1895 until his death. In Tahiti his painting style evolved to reflect the Pacific Islands' primitive forms and brilliant colors. Under the influence of the tropical setting and Polynesian culture, Gauguin's paintings became more powerful, while the subject matter became more distinctive, the scale larger, and the compositions more simplified. Gauguin retained the qualities of expressive color, denial of perspective, and thick, flat forms. His striking images of Polynesian women rank among the most beautiful paintings of the modern age.
In 1903, Gauguin, dissipated by drug addiction, after several failed suicide attempts, died of a heart attack on Atuana, Hiva Oa Island in the Marquesas in French Polynesia.
"The further I go, the more I feel sure that thoughts can be expressed by something quite different from literature," Gauguin wrote. Gauguin's artistic development of a conceptual method of representation was important for the history of art as it moved into the twentieth century. Painters no longer aimed at depicting the outer world but at rendering their inner dreams by symbolic allusion and decorative form. Line and color developed their powers of expression, taking inspiration in global art.
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- In the Forest, Saint-Cloud, 1873
- The Forest Path, 1873
- Working the Land, 1873
- Cail Factories and Quai de Grenelle, 1875
- Crane on the Banks of the Seine, 1875
- Landscape with Poplars, 1875
- Mette Asleep on a Sofa, 1875
- Pears and Grapes, 1875
- The Seine, Pont d'Iena, 1875
- Boquet of Peonies on a Musical Score, 1876
- China Asters, Hat and Book, 1876
- Still Life with Oysters, 1876
- Man with a Toque, 1877
- Portrait of Claude Antoine Charles Favre, 1877
- Still Life with Jug and Red Mullet, 1877
- Chicken Coup, 1878
- The Market Gardens of Vaugirard, 1879
- Houses, Vaugirard, 1880
- Mandolin on a Chair, 1880
- Banks of the Oise, 1881
- Young Girl Dreaming (Study of a Child Asleep), 1881
- Blue Barge, 1882
- Corner of the Garden, rue Carcel, 1882
- Flowers and Japanese Book, 1882
- Gratte Coqs Path, 1882
- Aline Gauguin and One of Her Brothers, 1883
- Double Portrait of a Young Girl (Mademoiselle Lafuite), 1883
- Farm in Osny, 1883
- Ingeborg Thaulow, 1883
- Osny, the Gate, Busagny Farm, 1883
- Tomatoes and a Pewter Tankard on a Table, 1883
- Blue Roofs, Rouen, 1884
- Henhouse, 1884
- Madame Mette Gauguin in an Evening Dress, 1884
- Nasturtiums and Dahlias in a Basket, 1884
- Sunken Path, Wooded Rose, 1884
- The Port of Rouen, 1884
- Dahlias in a Copper Vase, 1885
- Horse and Cow in a Field, 1885
- Lilac Bouquet, 1885
- Skaters in Fredericksberg Park, 1885
- Still Life in an Interior, Copenhagen, 1885
- Four Breton Women, 1886
- Mount Sainte-Marguerite from near the Presbytery, 1886
- Pots and Bouquets, 1886
- Still Life, The White Bowl, 1886
- Vase of Flowers, 1886
- Mango Pickers, Martinique, 1887
- Breton Boy by the Aven River, 1888
- Breton Girls Dancing, 1888
- Cove opposite Pont-Aven Harbor, 1888
- Dogs Running through a Field, 1888
- Fishermen and Bathers on the Aven, 1888
- Portrait of Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, 1888
- Portrait of a Little Boy, 1888
- Portrait of a Woman (Marie Lagadu), 1888
- Self Portrait, Les Miserables, 1888
- Shepherd and Shepherdess in a Meadow, 1888
- Still Life with Japanese Print, 1888
- The Swineheard, 1888
- Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin, 1889
- Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889
- Fields by the Sea (Le Pouldu), 1889
- Green Christ (Breton Calvary), 1889
- Haymaking in Brittany, 1889
- Landscape at le Pouldu (The Isolated House), 1889
- Landscape with Two Breton Girls, 1889
- Madame Angele Satre, the Inkeeper at Pont-Aven, 1889
- Portrait of Two Children (Paul and Jean Schuffenecker), 1889
- Seaweed Gatherers, 1889
- Self Portrait, Caricature, 1889
- Still Life 'Ripipont', 1889
- Still Life with Onions, Beetroot and a Japanese Print, 1889
- The Gate (The Swineherd), 1889
- The Willows, 1889
- Yellow Haystacks (Golden Harvest), 1889
- Houses in le Pouldu, 1890
- Portrait of Aline Gauguin, 1890
- Seaside Harvest, le Pouldu, 1890
- Soyez Mysterieuses, 1890
- The Creek, Le Pouldu, 1890
- Beneath the Pandanus Tree, 1891
- Fire Dance, 1891
- Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891
- Man with an Ax, 1891
- Mau Taporo (The Lemon Picker), 1891
- The Large Tree, 1891
- Two Women on the Beach, 1891
- By the Sea, 1892
- Joyousness, 1892
- Landscape with Peacocks, 1892
- Mata Mua (In Olden Times), 1892
- Ta Matete (The Market), 1892
- Tahitian Women Bathing, 1892
- Tahitian Women under the Palms, 1892
- Te Poipoi, 1892
- The Seed of Areoi, 1892
- The Siesta, 1892
- What News, 1892
- Where Are You Going, 1892
- Tahitian Pastorals, 1893
- Tahitian Woman near a River, 1893
- Nave Nave Moe (Delightful Drowsiness), 1894
- Two Breton Peasants on the Road, 1894
- Scenes from Tahitian Live, 1895
- Tahiti, 1895
- Portrait of a Young Woman, Vaite (Jeanne) Goupil, 1896
- Self Portrait, 1896
- The King's Wife, 1896
- Why are You Angry, 1896
- Self Portrait, 1897
- Tahitian Landscape, 1897
- Te Rerioa, 1897
- Thatched Hut under Palm Trees, 1897
- Vairumati, 1897
- Where Do We Come From, What are We Doing, Where are We Going, 1897
- Tahitian Pastoral, 1898
- The Bathers, 1898
- Three Tahitians, 1898
- Month of Maria, 1899
- Two Tahitian Women, 1899
- Sunflowers and Apples, 1901
- Girl with a Fan, 1902
- The Offering, 1902
- Two Women (Mother and Daughter), 1902
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