16. GAUGUIN, Paul
The Yellow Christ
1889
Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo
17. GAUGUIN, Paul
The Yellow Christ (detail)
1889
Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo
18. GAUGUIN, Paul
The Yellow Christ (detail)
1889
Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo
19. GAUGUIN, Paul
The Yellow Christ (detail)
1889
Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo
20. GAUGUIN, Paul
The Yellow Christ (detail)
1889
Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo
21. GAUGUIN, Paul
The Yellow Christ (detail)
1889
Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo
22.
23. GAUGUIN, Paul
Vision after the Sermon
(Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel)
1888
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
24. GAUGUIN, Paul
Vision after the Sermon
(Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel) (detail)
1888
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
25. GAUGUIN, Paul
Vision after the Sermon
(Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel) (detail)
1888
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
26. GAUGUIN, Paul
Vision after the Sermon
(Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel) (detail)
1888
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
27. GAUGUIN, Paul
Vision after the Sermon
(Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel) (detail)
1888
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
28. GAUGUIN, Paul
Vision after the Sermon
(Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel) (detail)
1888
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
29. GAUGUIN, Paul
Vision after the Sermon
(Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel) (detail)
1888
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
37. GAUGUIN, Paul
Where Do We Come From?
Who Are We? Where Are We
Going?
1897
Oil on canvas, 141 x 346 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
38. GAUGUIN, Paul
Where Do We Come From?
Who Are We? Where Are We
Going? (detail)
1897
Oil on canvas, 141 x 346 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
39. GAUGUIN, Paul
Where Do We Come From?
Who Are We? Where Are We
Going? (detail)
1897
Oil on canvas, 141 x 346 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
40. GAUGUIN, Paul
Where Do We Come From?
Who Are We? Where Are We
Going? (detail)
1897
Oil on canvas, 141 x 346 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
41. GAUGUIN, Paul
Where Do We Come From?
Who Are We? Where Are We
Going? (detail)
1897
Oil on canvas, 141 x 346 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
42. GAUGUIN, Paul
Where Do We Come From?
Who Are We? Where Are We
Going? (detail)
1897
Oil on canvas, 141 x 346 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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44. GAUGUIN, Eugène Henri Paul
Gaugin Paul was a French Post-Impressionist painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist,
and write, and was an important figure in the Symbolist movement, and his
experimentation was indicative of the Synthetist style of modern art.
He also paved the way to the appreciation of primitivism, as his paintings employed
many of the simplistic techniques employed by Naïve artists.
As an individual he was prone to bouts of depression and once attempted suicide.
As a painter, he was disappointed with Impressionism, as he felt that the tradition of
European painting had simply become imitative, and lacked the symbolic depth that
he desired. He also thoroughly enjoyed the art of Africa and Asia, which was full of
symbolic depth, vigor, and meaning. In his escape from the traditional European
paintings, he sought to find a tropical paradise, in which he could paint in an
increasingly primitive style and live off the land.
45. Lacking recognition for his work and with no money, he sailed to the
tropical islands of Tahiti and Marquesas, in French Polynesia. His
exploits there generated much interest, especially his reputed sexual
exploits with young native girls, some of which appear as the
subjects in his paintings.
In Polynesia, he often sided with the natives in their conflicts with
the church and colonial authorities, eventually writing a book about
his experiences there. Gaugin’s physical escape allowed his stylistic
escape of post-Renaissance painting, as he paid little attention to
classical perspective and eliminated gradations of color and
shading.
46. Inspired by the primitivism of the countries in which he lived, he also used primitive
elements in his paintings to great success.
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?,
1897 This is Paul Gaugin’s most famous painting, and he considered it his
masterpiece, and the culmination of his thoughts. In Tahiti, as he was painting his
masterpiece, Gaugin declared that he would commit suicide upon its completion.
Although this was something he had previously attempted, this was not the case, as
the artist died of syphilis in 1903. The painting was meant to be read from right to
left, with the three main figures in the painting representing the three questions of
the title. The figures are arranged from the beginning stages of life, from young
figures with a child, to the middle aged figure in the middle, to the elder figure on the
left of the painting. The idol in the background, situated behind the elder figure,
represents the “Beyond.”