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Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin , 1848-1903, French painter and woodcut artist, b. Paris; son of a journalist and a French-Peruvian mother. Early Life Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint on weekends. By the age of 35, with the encouragement of Camille... Read more
Atuona
Atuona or Atuana , town, in the Marquesas Islands , South Pacific, in French Polynesia . Situated on the southern coast of the island of Hiva Oa , Atuona overlooks the Bay of Traitors. Gauguin lived in Atuona Valley and is buried there. ... Read more
Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler , 1853-1918, Swiss painter and lithographer. At first he worked in an ornamental style akin to art nouveau. Inclined toward mysticism, he visited Paris in 1891 and was attracted to the symbolist group around Gauguin. Hodler then evolved his own powerful means of expression with stro... Read more
John Rewald
John Rewald , 1912-94, American art historian, b. Berlin. Rewald emigrated to the United States in 1941. He was recognized as a foremost authority on late 19th-century art. His books include studies of Maillol (1935), Gauguin (1938), Seurat (1943), Bonnard (1948), Cézanne (1948), Pissarro (19... Read more
Robert Goldwater
Robert Goldwater 1907-73, American art historian, b. New York City. Goldwater taught at Queens College, N.Y., from 1934 to 1957, when he was appointed professor of fine arts at New York Univ. The same year he also became the director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York City. Known primarily fo... Read more
Nabis
Nabis [Heb.,=prophets], a group of artists in France active during the 1890s. Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis were the principal theorists of the group. Outstanding members were Édouard Vuillard , Pierre Bonnard , Aristide Maillol , Félix Vallotton , and the lesser know... Read more
postimpressionism
postimpressionism term coined by Roger Fry to refer to the work of a number of French painters active at the end of the 19th cent. who, although they developed their varied styles quite independently, were united in their rejection of impressionism . The foremost of these were Cézanne , V... Read more
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro , 1830-1903, French impressionist painter, b. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. In Paris from 1855, he came under the influence of Corot and the Barbizon school. Later he allied himself with the impressionists, and was represented in all of the eight impressionist exhibitions (1874-1886).... Read more
Arles
Arles , city (1990 pop. 52,543), Bouches-du-Rhône dept., S central France, in Provence , on the Rhône River delta. Arles is an important railroad, shipping, agriculture, and industrial center with varied manufactures. It was a flourishing Roman town (Arelas) and the metropolis of Gaul i... Read more
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky , 1866-1944, Russian abstract painter and theorist. Usually regarded as the originator of abstract art, Kandinsky abandoned a legal career for painting at 30 when he moved to Munich. In subsequent trips to Paris he came into contact with the art of Gauguin , neoimpressionism (see ... Read more

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Gauguin, Paul
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Paul Gauguin Born: June 7, 1848 Paris, France Died...sculptor The French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin sought exotic environments, first in...world in the process. Early life Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France, on June 7...
Paul Gauguin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Paul Gauguin The French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), seeking exotic environments, first in...evoking in the process a mysterious, personal world. Paul Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848, to a French father...
Gauguin, (Eugène Henri) Paul
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Gauguin, (Eugène Henri) Paul (1848...impressionism . In his early career, Gauguin exhibited (1881–86) with...After the Sermon (1888) is a key work in Gauguin's break with the naturalism of impressionism...
Aristide Maillol
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...manner. In 1884 Maillol saw the paintings of Paul Gauguin and Maurice Denis. "Gauguin's painting was a revelation to me!" he exclaimed...changed, but without assuming the mannerisms of Gauguin's style, only its breadth and innocence. Later...
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Gogh, Paul C é zanne, and Paul Gauguin, whose innovations she absorbed and transformed...her late figure studies. She mentions Gauguin in letters of 1905 and certainly visited...with Camellia Branch may be indebted to Gauguin. Its hieratic frontality and mysterious...
Witkacy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...representational turn after he saw an exhibition of Paul Gauguin's paintings in Vienna in 1906 and traveled...for several years and studied with one of Gauguin's Polish students, Wladyslaw Slewinski. Gauguin's flat planes of intense color influenced...
modern art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...neoimpressionism, while Van Gogh and Gauguin , using bold masses, gave to color an...the Nabis developed pictorial ideas from Gauguin, while sinuous linear decorations were...an enthusiasm that was generated by Gauguin and extended to Picasso , Brancusi , Modigliani...
Georges Pierre Seurat
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...postimpressionists, which included Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Paul C é zanne, and the neoimpressionists...influence thus spread to numerous other painters, including Gauguin, Camille Pissarro, Van Gogh, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...
Van Gogh, Vincent
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles, Provence, where he was joined by Gauguin . Suffering from mental illness and depression, he cut off part of his left ear after a quarrel with Gauguin. Van Gogh's paintings from this period include the Sunflower...
Cuno Amiet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Breton village for 13 months. There he immediately came into contact with the painters and the work of the Gauguin circle (Paul Gauguin, himself, had left for Tahiti in 1891). It was this experience that made the deepest and most lasting impression...

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Gauguin, Paul
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Gauguin, Paul (1848–1903). French...Japanese colour prints or stained glass. Gauguin also did woodcuts in which the black...the art of woodcut in the 20th century. Gauguin's other work included woodcarving and...
Synthetism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...of painting associated with Bernard , Gauguin , and their associates at Pont-Aven...fundamental colours of the prism.’ Gauguin too spoke much of ‘synthesis...integrated and meaningful. Bernard and Gauguin each claimed credit for developing Synthetism...
Post-Impressionism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...dominated by the work of Cézanne , Gauguin , and van Gogh, who are considered the...preoccupied with pictorial structure; Gauguin renounced ‘the abominable error...than 200 exhibits, Cézanne, Gauguin, and van Gogh being represented by more...
Expressionism
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...the 20th century. Van Gogh's friend Gauguin was also important for the development...away from European urban civilization, Gauguin discovered folk art and primitive art...Munch , who knew the work of van Gogh and Gauguin well. From the mid-1880s he began to...
Nabis
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...and they were particularly influenced by Gauguin's expressive use of colour and rhythmic...missionary zeal with which they promoted Gauguin's teachings. Sérusier , who met Gauguin at Pont-Aven in 1888, was the driving...
Gogh, Vincent van
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...in France, with Cézanne and Gauguin the greatest of Post-Impressionist artists...moved to Paris, where he met Degas , Gauguin, Pissarro , Seurat , and Toulouse-Lautrec...Arles and in October he was joined by Gauguin. However, as a result of a quarrel between...
Bernard, Émile
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Lautrec, and between 1888 and 1891 he worked closely with Gauguin . Bernard seems to have had a stimulating effect on his great...much of it published in Lettres de Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne … a É. Bernard...
Pont-Aven, School of
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...School of. Term applied to a group of painters associated with Gauguin during his periods of work at the town of Pont-Aven in Brittany...naturalistic style. Émile Bernard was among them, and he and Gauguin together developed Synthetism .
O'Conor, Roderic
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...studying in London and Antwerp. He was strongly influenced by Gauguin and van Gogh, and by the early 1890s was painting in a full...often used non-naturalistically, and thick brushwork. Gauguin (whom he met at Pont-Aven) asked him to return to the South...
Symbolism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Symbolist writers (the femme fatale is a common theme), but Gauguin and his followers chose much less flamboyant subjects, often...x2018;the Symbolists, by freeing painting from what Gauguin called “the shackles of probability”...

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juxtapose
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus juxtapose • verb  the exhibit juxtaposes works by Van Gogh and Gauguin synonyms : place side by side, set side by side, collocate, mix; compare, contrast.

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Gauguin, Meyer de Haan Are Reunited in Nirvana.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 2/19/2001; 700+ words ; ...natural beauty, the French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is probably the most legendary...produced his most celebrated pictures, Gauguin sought refuge in Provence, and it was...Le Pouldu is sometimes referred to as Gauguin's "first Tahiti in France." It is...
Gauguin--and Zaha Hadid: a major exhibition on Gauguin and Impressionism at the Ordrupgaard collection in Copenhagen was overwhelmed by Zaha Hadid's unsympathetic new exhibition galleries, writes Martin Bailey. It should look better at the Kimbell.(Exhibitions)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...new extension designed by Zaha Hadid. 'Gauguin and Impressionism' was the inaugural...Museum on 18 December. The focus of 'Gauguin and Impressionism' is on the years 1875-87, before Gauguin's discovery of Brittany and Tahiti...
GAUGUIN'S BRUSH WITH ART CHANGED HIS LIFE AND OTHERS.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 3/10/1996; 700+ words ; ...Kakutani The New York Times Title: "Paul Gauguin: A Life" Author: David Sweetman Data...and colleague Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin has suffered the fate of the artist who...into a symbol of the tortured artist, Gauguin has been memorialized as an avatar of...
Gauguin's Fantasy Island; A `Primitive' Sculpture That's Anything But
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/29/1996; ; 700+ words ; Paul Gauguin was a wild man. He brawled with drunken...the stops. Sex, drugs and violence -- Gauguin tried it all. Now a very small but very...wildness and tames him to his time. The Gauguin of art legend, the stockbroker-turned...
Gauguin's mysterious last masterpiece Art
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/5/2003; ; 700+ words ; Gauguin Tahiti Where Do We Come From? What Are...autumn that painting is the centrepiece in Gauguin Tahiti: The Studio of the Tropics, a...Almost everyone knows the story of Paul Gauguin (except perhaps for that residual segment...
Gauguin's Zombie.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Contemporary Pacific; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...15 June 2003. The life of artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) retains a mythic quality...century nostalgia. The early life of Gauguin, born in Paris, included years living...poignancy, but we are also inclined to see in Gauguin an emblem of the very process of westernization...
Gauguin's Skirt.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; Paul Gauguin's two sojourns in Tahiti and the Marquesas...critics have cast a condemnatory eye on Gauguin's attitude towards Polynesian women...themselves. His approach reveals how Gauguin's residence in the South Seas resulted...
Gauguin's vision still inspires us
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 7/7/2005; ; 700+ words ; PAUL GAUGUIN'S legacy to the art world, explains...subject matter," says Thomson, curator of Gauguin's Vision, the National Gallery of Scotland...today. "Early 20th century art owes Gauguin an awful lot," she continues. "Certainly...
Paul Gauguin's timeless world
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 6/21/2002; ; 700+ words ; 00-00-0000 Paul Gauguin's timeless world -- Exhibit a true...Star B. Two Star P. One Star B WHAT: Gauguin in New York Collections: The Lure of...Collection, Copenhagen, exhibits. WHEN: Gauguin, through Oct. 20; Ordrupgaard, through...
Searching for Gauguin in Tahiti IF YOU GO
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; PAPEETE, Tahiti--Paul Gauguin was probably Tahiti's most unlikely...to kill himself. Despite it all, Gauguin's Polynesian paintings are all grace...have to look hard to find tributes to Gauguin. It's astonishing, but the South...