Paul Gauguin

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Paul Gaugujn is numbered among the best-known painters of Post-Impressionism. His artistic programme departs from the naturalist manner of painting, tapping the spring of creative power to be found in unspoilt nature. The direct emotion that his pictures radiate stems from the intensity to be found in his colours and reduction of form. Gauguin's efforts to perceive an inner reality beyond that which the eye observes had a formative influence upon the development of art from Impressionism towards Expressionism. He soon began to concern himself with foreign civilizations and primitive art, resulting in a high regard for the archaic together with the recognition of an unconscious dimension. It is not least because of this discovery that Gauguin is seen as one of the forefathers of modern art.
This volume documents the atmosphere radiating from Gauguin's pictures, along with his passionate relationship to art as a combination of pictures and texts. It portrays Gauguin's artistic... Tovább

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Paul Gaugujn is numbered among the best-known painters of Post-Impressionism. His artistic programme departs from the naturalist manner of painting, tapping the spring of creative power to be found in unspoilt nature. The direct emotion that his pictures radiate stems from the intensity to be found in his colours and reduction of form. Gauguin's efforts to perceive an inner reality beyond that which the eye observes had a formative influence upon the development of art from Impressionism towards Expressionism. He soon began to concern himself with foreign civilizations and primitive art, resulting in a high regard for the archaic together with the recognition of an unconscious dimension. It is not least because of this discovery that Gauguin is seen as one of the forefathers of modern art.
This volume documents the atmosphere radiating from Gauguin's pictures, along with his passionate relationship to art as a combination of pictures and texts. It portrays Gauguin's artistic achievement, his turbulent life, and his approach to the subject of art.
The numerous illustrations enable the reader to experience directly the particular effect exerted by his pictures, from his seemingly Symbolist works, via the pictures painted in Brittany and Provence, to the works flooded with sunshine from his final and best-known period of creativity, that on Tahiti. 125 colour plates — four of them large-format fold-out pages — serve to illustrate Gauguin's artistic work. The volume is rounded off with black-and-white reproductions, some of them rare documentary photographs.
It is not only the artist's friends and colleagues to whom the carefully researched textual records give the chance to speak; we also hear from individuals reflecting the spirit of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, among them August Strindberg, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles Mo-rice, Octave Mirbeau, and other well-known authors, artists and critics. The volume further contains a selection of Gauguin's own writings, including extracts from his famous Noa Noa, thereby conveying a many-sided portrait of this prominent artist and his times. Gauguin's innovative force, his influence upon subsequent art, and his powers of endurance in difficult situations during his life are vividly depicted here. This book thus not only reveals the great variety of an artistic life but also represents an important contribution to the history of art. Vissza