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    • Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin 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 practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While only moderately successful during his lifetime, Gauguin has since been reco… See more

    How Gauguin Painted a Lost World
    How Gauguin Painted a Lost World
     A Pioneer of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism
    A Pioneer of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism
    Biography

    Gauguin was born in Paris to Clovis Gauguin and Aline Chazal on 7 June 1848, the year of revolutionary upheavals throughout Europe. His father, a 34-year-old liberal journalist from a family of entreprene… See more

    BornEugène Henri Paul Gauguin · 7 June 1848 · Paris, French Second Republic
    Died8 May 1903 (aged 54) · Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
    SpousesMette-Sophie Gad · (m. 1873; sep. 1894) · Teha'amana · (m. 1891; sep. 1893)
    Known forPainting · sculpture · ceramics · engraving
    Historical significance

    Primitivism was an art movement of late 19th-century painting and sculpture, characterized by exaggerated body proportions, animal totems, geometric designs, and stark contrasts. The first artist to systemat… See more

    Influence on Picasso

    Gauguin's posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1903, and an even larger one in 1906, had a stunning and powerful influence on the French avant-garde and in particular Pablo Pica… See more

    Technique and style

    Gauguin's initial artistic guidance was from Pissarro, but the relationship left more of a mark personally than stylistically. Gauguin's masters were Giotto, Raphael, Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Manet, Degas, and Cézanne. … See more

    Other media

    Gauguin began making prints in 1889, highlighted by a series of zincographs commissioned by Theo van Gogh known as the Volpini Suite, which also appeared in the Cafe des Arts show of 1889. Gauguin was not hin… See more

    Legacy

    The vogue for Gauguin's work started soon after his death. Many of his later paintings were acquired by the Russian collector Sergei Shchukin. A substantial part of his collection is displayed in the Pushkin Museum and … See more

     
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  2. Paul Gauguin | Biography, Tahiti, Vincent van Gogh, …

    Sep 25, 2024 · Paul Gauguin was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor who sought to achieve a ‘primitiveexpression of spiritual and emotional states in his work. His art has been categorized as Post-Impressionist, …

  3. Paul Gauguin Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory

    Paul Gauguin is one of the most significant French artists to be initially schooled in Impressionism, but who broke away from its fascination with the everyday world to pioneer a new style of painting broadly referred to as Symbolism.

  4. Paul Gauguin - 517 artworks - painting - WikiArt.org

    Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist artist, whose work deeply influenced the French avant-garde and modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. As a descendant of the Peruvian nobility, he spent his …

  5. Paul Gauguin - Paintings, Tahiti & Facts - Biography

    Apr 2, 2014 · French artist Paul Gauguin's bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts helped him achieve broad success in the late 19th century.

  6. Paul Gauguin - MoMA

    Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; 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 …

  7. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) - The Metropolitan Museum …

    Paul Gauguin styled himself and his art as “savage.” Although he began his artistic career with the Impressionists in Paris, during the late 1880s he fled farther and farther from urban civilization in search of an edenic paradise …

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  9. Paul Gauguin - World History Encyclopedia

    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.

  10. Paul Gauguin - Post-Impressionism, Primitivism, Symbolism

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