The French artist Paul Gauguin became one of those art historians called the post-impressionists – along with V. Van Gogh and A. Toulouse-Lautrec. The point, however, is not whether to identify the artist and what style stream it should be attributed to. He was a bright creative individuality, a tramp and adventurer, an exemplary family man and a vicious man. In the personalities of the era of modernism, extremes in some strange way coexisted.
Impressionists have already begun to abandon the subjective representativeness and highlighted the subjective author’s principle. Clear lines gave way to blurred.
The color palette was also original – either deliberately screaming, or, on the contrary, muffled.
So, for example, Polynesian landscapes of Gauguin are executed in a manner, when the image itself is slightly shifted, deformed in comparison with the original one. Somewhere in the corner of the canvas “nest” people, but it clearly only creates a background, and not on them is concentrated the attention of the artist. Yes, it’s easy to guess that these are Aborigines, that they have a tradition of carrying jugs with water or dishes with food on their heads.
Here their huts in the depths of dense tropical vegetation are made much brighter colors. In the rest we see a riot of greenery.
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