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Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin was born June 7, 1848 to liberal, middle-class parents, Pierre Guillaume Clovis Gauguin and Aline Marie Chazal, in Paris, France. After growing up, Paul joined the merchant marines and after his time was served, became a stockbroker. ...
Gauguin’s style of painting fell into a category known as post-impressionist. Narrowly defined, post-impressionist refers to fiver painters- Cezanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh, who incorporated much from impressionism but in the end moved beyond its shared aesthetic ideology to develop five quite dissimilar techniques. ... Gauguin’s experiments with bold color and flat two-dimensional forms ranged from vivid naturalistic scenes such as Tahitian Women On The Beach, to the dark, menacing image of Spirit Of The Dead Watching (1892, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY).
In 1886, Paul Gauguin came to a village in Brittany called Pont-Aven. This village appealed to Gauguin in its unindustrialized, immaterialist sense of community. Along with others, Gauguin branded themselves as the School of Pont-Aven. ...
Influenced by a painter named Emile Bernard, Gauguin began to stray from the world of impressionism and turned towards a lesser naturalistic technique he coined synthetism. ... Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch artist is who introduced Gauguin to the art of Japanese prints. Gauguin and van Gogh spent two months together in 1888, in Arles, which is in the south of France. It was here that Gauguin’s new style was coming out in his work, which is depicted in the Yellow Christ, 1889 Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (California State University at Hayward, 2003). At the end of the two months, van Gogh and Gauguin enter into a heated argument in which van Gogh, hastily cuts off a piece of his ear (Brettell, 1988, p.
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