Gauguin's Art

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"Paul Gauguin was a major artist of the French postimpressionist period. The artist was at his best when he could paint what he called "natural" men and women living with their fears, faiths, myths, and primitive passions, and he created many such works while living on Tahiti from 1891 to 1893 and 1895 to 1901 and the Marquesas Islands from 1901 to 1903 in the southern Pacific Ocean. Gauguin was attracted to primitivism because in this style he could present clearly intelligible images using simple color harmonies to produce pictures that were decorative and pleasing to the eye. One of the important influences on the artist was Japanese art, as first seen by Gauguin at a presentation in Paris.

Little is known of Gauguin's early life except that he was born in Paris in 1848 and was taken to Peru as an infant because.."

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