Thursday, March 26, 2009

What was the time period of Paul Gauguin's work?

1881-1897
What was the time period of Paul Gauguin%26#039;s work?
Gauguin had been interested in art since his childhood. In his free time, he began painting. He also visited galleries frequently and purchase work by emerging artists. Gauguin formed a friendship with artist Camille Pissarro, who introduced him to various other artists. As he progressed in his art, Gauguin rented a studio, and showed paintings in Impressionist exhibitions held in 1881 and 1882. Over two summer vacations, he painted with Pissarro and occasionally Paul C茅zanne.





In 1891, Gauguin, frustrated by lack of recognition at home and financially destitute, sailed to the tropics to escape European civilization and %26quot;everything that is artificial and conventional.%26quot; (Before this he had made several attempts to find a tropical paradise where he could %26#039;live on fish and fruit%26#039; and paint in his increasingly primitive style, including short stays in Martinique and as a labourer on the Panama Canal construction, however he was dismissed from his job after only two weeks). Living in Mataiea Village in Tahiti, he painted %26quot;Fatata te Miti%26quot; (%26quot;By the Sea%26quot;), %26quot;Ia Orana Maria%26quot; (Ave Maria) and other depictions of Tahitian life. He moved to Punaauia in 1897, where he created the masterpiece painting %26quot;Where Do We Come From%26quot; and then lived the rest of his life in the Marquesas Islands, returning to France only once, when he painted at Pont-Aven. His works of that period are full of quasi-religious symbolism and an exoticized view of the inhabitants of Polynesia. In Polynesia he sided with the native peoples, clashing often with the colonial authorities and with the Catholic Church. During this period he also wrote the book Avant et apr猫s (before and after), a fragmented collection of observations about life in Polynesia, memories from his life and comments on literature and paintings.
What was the time period of Paul Gauguin%26#039;s work?
he was a Post impressionist who painted mainly from 1880 to his death in 1903.

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