Paul Gauguin





Paul Gauguin
French artist

Description

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Wikipedia
Born: 7 June 1848, Paris, France
Died: 8 May 1903, Atuona, French Polynesia
Periods: Post-Impressionism, Impressionism, Modern art, Primitivism, Synthetism, Symbolism
Known for: Painting, sculpture, ceramics, engraving
Children: Pola Gauguin, Jean René Gauguin, Émile Gauguin, MORE
Quotes
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
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Artworks
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Tahitian Women on the Beach (1891)
Tahitian Women on the Beach
1891
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897)
Where Do We Come From? W...
1897
The Yellow Christ (1889)
The Yellow Christ
1889
Vision After the Sermon (1888)
Vision After the Sermon
1888
Two Tahitian Women (1899)
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