Gauguin

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Rene Huyghe
Modern art begins with Paul Gauguin. His interpretations, in paint and canvas, of his own intensely personal vision were to be the primary influence on several twentieth-century schools of painting. Gauguin's life, like that of his colleague Vincent van Gogh, was tempestuous. Both were tortured artists whose work reflected their divergence from traditional subjects, and neither one during his lifetime achieved a fraction of the acclaim he would receive after his death. Enduring many privations that eventually undermined his health, Gauguin severed his connections with his family and the Paris stock market. He left the comforts of Paris for artistic freedom in Brittany, Provence, Martinique, and finally faraway Tahiti.
Gauguin and van Gogh were largely responsible for freeing the scope of nineteenth-century art from the limitations of Impressionism and realism. Gauguin's singular style combined a simplification of form and an intensification of color. The... Tovább

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Rene Huyghe
Modern art begins with Paul Gauguin. His interpretations, in paint and canvas, of his own intensely personal vision were to be the primary influence on several twentieth-century schools of painting. Gauguin's life, like that of his colleague Vincent van Gogh, was tempestuous. Both were tortured artists whose work reflected their divergence from traditional subjects, and neither one during his lifetime achieved a fraction of the acclaim he would receive after his death. Enduring many privations that eventually undermined his health, Gauguin severed his connections with his family and the Paris stock market. He left the comforts of Paris for artistic freedom in Brittany, Provence, Martinique, and finally faraway Tahiti.
Gauguin and van Gogh were largely responsible for freeing the scope of nineteenth-century art from the limitations of Impressionism and realism. Gauguin's singular style combined a simplification of form and an intensification of color. The twofold direction of Gauguin's art— with elements of expressionism and a feeling for the abstract—put him in the forefront of modern painters who creáted new realms of the imagination.
This authoritative study has been undertaken by an outstanding authority on Gauguin. René Huyghe organized the 1949 exhibit in Paris of Gauguin's collected works and published the artist's notebooks and manuscripts, which have served to separate the legendary from the no less fascinating true stories that surround Gauguin, enigmatic master of timeless landscapes and portraits. Vissza