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Paul Gauguin. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin ( UK: / ˈɡoʊɡæ̃ /, US: / ɡoʊˈɡæ̃ /, French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential ...
- Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, 7 June 1848, Paris, French Second Republic
- 8 May 1903 (aged 54), Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Apr 12, 2024 · Paul Gauguin (born June 7, 1848, Paris, France—died May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor who sought to achieve a “primitive” expression of spiritual and emotional states in his work. The artist, whose work has been categorized as Post-Impressionist, Synthetist ...
May 9, 2022 · Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French neo-impressionist painter whose vivid paintings with their flat, bold colours and use of mystical and ambiguous symbols revolutionised art. Never quite gaining success in his own lifetime, Gauguin was driven to Polynesia in search of a place unspoilt by modernity where he could express himself ...
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56, rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paris, France. Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in June 1848, amidst the bloody 'June Days' of the 1848 Revolution. His parents were liberals. His grandmother had organised early socialist movements, and was under active surveillance by the police. Gauguin would grow to idolise her.
Gauguin suggests that the figures have mysterious symbolic meanings and that they might answer the questions posed by the work’s title. And, in the manner of a sacred scroll written in an ancient language, the painting is to be read from right to left: from the sleeping infant—where we come from—to the standing figure in the middle—what ...
Jan 16, 2020 · 1848. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin is born in Paris on June 7 to French journalist Clovis Gauguin (1814-1851) and Aline Maria Chazal, who was of Franco-Spanish origin. He is the youngest of the couple's two children and their only son. Aline's mother was the socialist and proto- feminist activist and writer Flora Tristan (1803–1844), who ...
In October of 1888, Gauguin left Brittany for Arles, where he joined Vincent van Gogh, whose brother Theo was his art dealer. Gauguin encouraged Van Gogh to paint as he himself did, from memory and imagination (22.82.2[10]), rather than from motifs in nature. Their collaboration ended abruptly when Van Gogh had a mental breakdown and cut off ...
