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Rebel in a Tahitian Paradise
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Unlike many of the French artists of his day, Paul Gauguin courted controversy. He's very often viewed as the "original Bad Boy" of modern art, from the clothes he wore to the images he painted. "Paul Gauguin's sumptuous, colorful images of Brittany and the islands of
the South Seas are some of the most appealing paintings in modern art".
Having left a job as a stockbroker to begin painting full time, he soon learned that painting was not lucrative enough to support his family. After his wife and children moved to her family in Copenhagen, his little understood art took a dramatic turn when he moved to Tahiti. Best known for his Tahiti settings and lush colors there is a different body of work in his prolific oeuvre. Many call it his dark side. Others see more complexity.
A new exhibit at the Washington National Gallery of Art "includes not only oil paintings but also pastels, prints, drawings,
sculpture, and decorated functional objects. Organized thematically,
the exhibition examines Gauguin's use of religious and mythological
symbols to tell stories, reinventing or appropriating narratives and
myths drawn both from his European cultural heritage and from Maori
legend".
Where do we come from, wehre are we, where are we going by Gauguin
"Gauguin: Maker of Myth", opens February 27 at the Washington National Gallery of Art.
Organized by Tate Modern, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Rebel in a Tahitian Paradise
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Unlike many of the French artists of his day, Paul Gauguin courted controversy. He's very often viewed as the "original Bad Boy" of modern art, from the clothes he wore to the images he painted. "Paul Gauguin's sumptuous, colorful images of Brittany and the islands of
the South Seas are some of the most appealing paintings in modern art".
Having left a job as a stockbroker to begin painting full time, he soon learned that painting was not lucrative enough to support his family. After his wife and children moved to her family in Copenhagen, his little understood art took a dramatic turn when he moved to Tahiti. Best known for his Tahiti settings and lush colors there is a different body of work in his prolific oeuvre. Many call it his dark side. Others see more complexity.
A new exhibit at the Washington National Gallery of Art "includes not only oil paintings but also pastels, prints, drawings, sculpture, and decorated functional objects. Organized thematically, the exhibition examines Gauguin's use of religious and mythological symbols to tell stories, reinventing or appropriating narratives and myths drawn both from his European cultural heritage and from Maori legend".
Where do we come from, wehre are we, where are we going by Gauguin
"Gauguin: Maker of Myth", opens February 27 at the Washington National Gallery of Art.
Organized by Tate Modern, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Having left a job as a stockbroker to begin painting full time, he soon learned that painting was not lucrative enough to support his family. After his wife and children moved to her family in Copenhagen, his little understood art took a dramatic turn when he moved to Tahiti. Best known for his Tahiti settings and lush colors there is a different body of work in his prolific oeuvre. Many call it his dark side. Others see more complexity.
A new exhibit at the Washington National Gallery of Art "includes not only oil paintings but also pastels, prints, drawings, sculpture, and decorated functional objects. Organized thematically, the exhibition examines Gauguin's use of religious and mythological symbols to tell stories, reinventing or appropriating narratives and myths drawn both from his European cultural heritage and from Maori legend".
Where do we come from, wehre are we, where are we going by Gauguin
"Gauguin: Maker of Myth", opens February 27 at the Washington National Gallery of Art.
Organized by Tate Modern, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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