Paul Gauguin
(1848 - 1903)
 

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While only moderately successful during his lifetime, Gauguin has since been recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism.

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Three Tahitians
1899
Oil on canvas
73 x 94 cm.
National Galleries Scotland
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/4942

Gauguin lived on the Polynesian island of Tahiti, then a French colony, between 1891-1893 and again in 1895-1901. Working in his radical new style, he viewed the local people and their culture through a decidedly western, male lens. When his paintings were exhibited in Britain, artist John Singer Sargent questioned whether they could be considered art, such was the degree of simplification. Others, however, believed that the bold colours and flattened forms lent greater authenticity to his vision of Tahiti.