(H/B-25) PAUL GAUGUIN, 1848-1903

Παρουσίαση

There cannot have been many other artists who set out as wholeheartedly to live the life they envisioned in their art as Paul Gauguin did. He lived between two worlds. In this art he held up a mirror to his own civilization, which he despised, and showed an alternative, primitive life in all its simple, naive harmony. But painting was not enough for Gauguin. He wanted to experience it himself. He wanted to prove that South Seas exoticism was not merely a forced and illusory escapism, of the kind that was fascinating his European contemporaries in an age of world fairs and newspaper reports. Gauguin personified a new union of art and life, imagination and order, and in anticipating this predominant twentieth-century characteristic he became one of the true pioneers of modernism. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

The Age of Impressionism 1848 - 1887
Suggestion and Expression 1888 - 1891
Tahiti: A Studio in the Tropics 1891 - 1893
"The Greatest Modern Painter" 1893 - 1895
The Legacy of the Tropics 1895 - 1903
Paul Gauguin 1848 - 1903
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