Glyptotheca Carlsberg, Copenhagen. “… Gauguin again took up his brushes and pencils, not without difficulty.” In a new place, it’s always not easy for me to put the car into

Tahitian painting is the central layer of Paul Gauguin’s artistic heritage. And although he claimed: “The pictures painted here frighten me, the public will never accept them,” the painter never

February 1897 was filled with productive work for Gauguin. Immersed in creativity on an exotic island, the painter regularly sends his completed works to the continent through the cruiser “Duge-Truen”

The wife of Mette-Sophie Gauguin, in the girlhood Gad refers to the early period of the artist’s work. With the young Dane Mette the painter gets acquainted in the house

The search for pure means of expressiveness and plots, dissociated from European mastery and intricacy, is what first of all catches your eye when you meet Gauguin’s “Dream.” The plot

An amazing work, always creating a contradiction between the title and content. But such is the view of a brilliant artist who sought to convey to the viewer his aesthetic

In March 1899, Pakhura gave birth to a son whom Gauguin called Emil. With this event Danielsson and several other researchers related the appearance of two paintings. Following Wildenstein, they

The French province with its unique patriarchal rural flavor always attracted Gauguin. Here he saw peace, dimensionality, some kind of innocence and purity of people – all this acted as

… A moment is a song of a whisper, Enchanted by history. The moment is you… I. Luzan, “The Moment” The picturesque canvas in the performance of the great Gauguin

To the writing of still lifes, Gaugin was particularly anxious. In this genre, he saw many opportunities for flying fantasy and finding new means of expressiveness. Especially a lot of

In 1891 Gauguin sailed to Polynesia in order to avoid European civilization and “everything that is artificial and usual.” His works of that period are full of quasi-religious symbols and

Paul Gauguin wrote an amazing canvas “House of the Hymns” in 1892, becoming finally an islander, leaving France. The work was included in the numerous collection of the second Tahitian

It is possible that someone will consider the artist’s predilection to be a display of the perverted taste of painting marshes, bare trees, killed animals and birds. But is not

One of the most famous paintings of Paul Gauguin. Created in Tahiti, is currently in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1881

The picture was created during Gauguin’s stay in Brittany. It was an innovative work – a vertical canvas on which the composition unfolds from the top down, contrary to all