Gauguin

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Modern art begins with Paul Gauguin. His interpretations through paint and canvas of his own intensely personal vision were to be the primary influence on several of the twentiethcentury schools of painting. In this volume many of his exotic, compelling works have been reproduced for the first time in full color. His life, like that of his colleague V. Van Gogh, was tempestuous; both were tortured artists whose work was to reflect their divergence from traditional subjects and techniques. Enduring many privations, which were eventually to undermine his health, he severed his connections with the Paris stock markét and his family, leaving the comforts of Paris for freedom to paint as he wished in Brittany, Provence, Panama and, finally, as far away as tropical Tahiti. Like Van Gogh, Gauguin was influential in freeing the scope of nineteenth-century art from the limitations of impressionism and realism. He boldly undertook an opposite direction, daring to develop a singular style with... Tovább

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Modern art begins with Paul Gauguin. His interpretations through paint and canvas of his own intensely personal vision were to be the primary influence on several of the twentiethcentury schools of painting. In this volume many of his exotic, compelling works have been reproduced for the first time in full color. His life, like that of his colleague V. Van Gogh, was tempestuous; both were tortured artists whose work was to reflect their divergence from traditional subjects and techniques. Enduring many privations, which were eventually to undermine his health, he severed his connections with the Paris stock markét and his family, leaving the comforts of Paris for freedom to paint as he wished in Brittany, Provence, Panama and, finally, as far away as tropical Tahiti. Like Van Gogh, Gauguin was influential in freeing the scope of nineteenth-century art from the limitations of impressionism and realism. He boldly undertook an opposite direction, daring to develop a singular style with a simplification of form, broad, curving planes and intensification of color. His strong sense of the emotional power of color and his use of symbols in which both the unconscious and the inviolable played a part contribute to abrooding, exclusive quality in his work. The two-fold direction of Gauguin's style, with interrelated elements of expressionism and a feeling for the abstract, put him in the forefront of modern painters who have departed from normál forms to create new realms of imagination. The authoritative study of the work and personality of this complex artist has been undertaken by an outstanding authority on Gauguin: René Huyghe, professor at the College of Francé and honorary curator-in-chief of the Louvre's department of paintings and drawings. It was he who organized the 1949 exibit in Paris of Gauguin's collected works. The publication of previously unpublished manuscripts and notebooks was due to his unremitting efforts to separate the legendary and exaggerated from the no less fascinating true elements of the aura that surrounds this enigmatic master of timeless lanclscapes and portraits. Vissza