Gauguin & Van Gogh

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"As painters in reaction against the bourgeois and fascinated by the exotic and colorful, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) repeatedly centered their art on the representation of the other. Their interest was in foregrounding what had been deemed unimportant or catapulted into the background by earlier artists. Whether travelling to Tahiti or Provencal Arles, Gauguin and Van Gogh actively sought out what was not part of the dominant bourgeois urban scene of their day. In understanding their art as a social practice, Gauguin and Van Gogh's paintings are marked with a revolutionary zeal. By choosing to give status where it had previously been denied and challenging traditional arrangements of form upon the canvas, Gauguin and Van Gogh contributed to aesthetic and social..."

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