Gauguin

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GAUGUIN
(1848-1903)
A pioneering figure in the history of modern art, Paul Gauguin led a life as dramatic as his art, abandoning his wife, family and livelihood in France to pursue a vision in Tahiti. He clung fondly to the hope that he might live the life of a primitive artist, surrounded by a people he loved, bathed in heat and colour, and free from the physical, moral and financial constraints imposed by civilization.
After a spell as a sailor Gauguin became a successful stockbroker at the age of twenty-five, and began to buy contemporary art to feed his growing passion as a week-end painter. Made redundant after a market crash he was forced to take on various odd jobs - as tarpaulin salesman, bill-postei; teacher and labourer - to support his family, but financial difficulties did not stop him painting. He became an accomplished amateur and as his talent gradually grew more apparent, he was introduced by his friend and mentor Camille Pissarro to some of the Impressionists.... Tovább

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GAUGUIN
(1848-1903)
A pioneering figure in the history of modern art, Paul Gauguin led a life as dramatic as his art, abandoning his wife, family and livelihood in France to pursue a vision in Tahiti. He clung fondly to the hope that he might live the life of a primitive artist, surrounded by a people he loved, bathed in heat and colour, and free from the physical, moral and financial constraints imposed by civilization.
After a spell as a sailor Gauguin became a successful stockbroker at the age of twenty-five, and began to buy contemporary art to feed his growing passion as a week-end painter. Made redundant after a market crash he was forced to take on various odd jobs - as tarpaulin salesman, bill-postei; teacher and labourer - to support his family, but financial difficulties did not stop him painting. He became an accomplished amateur and as his talent gradually grew more apparent, he was introduced by his friend and mentor Camille Pissarro to some of the Impressionists.
Although briefly tempted by the possibilities of commercial success, Gauguin found himself at odds with the formal structure and theories of the group. He was a loner. Determined thatthe exotic would both liberate and satisfy his artistic desires, he travelled to Tahiti; it was here in self-imposed exile, that he produced the unsettling but beautiful canvases that were so hugely important in breaking the hold of naturalism in western art.
Sadly, however; the Tahiti of Gauguin's canvases was an imagined world; civilization had reached the South Seas long before. Eventually, finding this too great a burden to beai; he attempted to poison himself, but in vain. Ultimately he died of syphilis, completely unaware of the effect his work would have on twentieth-century art.
Always passionately immersed in his work, he had created some of the most original and dynamic masterpieces the art world has ever seen, his preoccupation with colour as an expression of human emotion making him a pivotal figure in the Symbolist movement and one ofthemostpoeticof modern artists. Vissza