Gauguin
Post-Impressionist in Polynesia
Gauguin refers to Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), the French Post-Impressionist painter known for bold colors, symbolic imagery, and works depicting life in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.
His name evokes exoticism and artistic primitivism: The room was decorated in rich Gauguin colors.
A Gauguin is a painting by him: The museum acquired a Gauguin.
Innovative cultural pioneers
- CézanneFrench Post-Impressionist painter
- SeuratPointillism's founder
- Toulouse-LautrecFin-de-siècle lithographer
- color theoryFramework for understanding hues
Van Gogh · modernism · primitivism · experimentation · influential · revolutionary · fin-de-siècle
Water-bounded land mass
- PolynesiaEastern Oceania's island groups
- PacificEarth's vastest ocean
- tropicalOf hot, humid regions
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
Marquesas · pareo · tiki · lagoon · palm · native · mythology · primitivism
Heavy woven cloth
- paletteSurface for mixing pigments
- brushstrokesMarks left by painting
- woodcutRelief print from timber
- coloristOne who applies pigment
flatness · yellow · ochre · vermilion · symbolism · masterpiece · portrait · landscape
Securities transaction agent
- sailorSeafaring crew member
- bohemianArtistic nonconformist type
- ParisianOf France's capital
- CopenhagenDenmark's capital city
poverty · syphilis · suicide attempt · exile · scandal · self-portrait · correspondence · memoir
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- CézanneFrench Post-Impressionist painter
- SeuratPointillism's founder
- Toulouse-LautrecFin-de-siècle lithographer
Van Gogh · color theory · modernism · primitivism · experimentation · influential · revolutionary · fin-de-siècle
island
Water-bounded land mass
paradise · Marquesas · pareo · tiki · lagoon · palm · native · mythology · primitivism · voyage
canvas
Heavy woven cloth
- paletteSurface for mixing pigments
- brushstrokesMarks left by painting
- woodcutRelief print from timber
colorist · flatness · yellow · ochre · vermilion · symbolism · masterpiece · portrait · landscape
stockbroker
Securities transaction agent
Copenhagen · poverty · syphilis · suicide attempt · exile · scandal · self-portrait · correspondence · memoir · posthumous
- Modern ArtistsPicasso, Pablo Picasso, Matisse, Pollock, Warhol
- Post-ImpressionistsCezanne, Seurat, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bernard
- art museumspaintings, The Louvre, galleries, permanent collection, exhibitions
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- French Artrealism, Post-Impressionism, cubism, surrealism, Fauvism
- French LuminariesVictor Hugo, Emile Zola, Claude Monet, Louis Pasteur, Gustave Eiffel
GauguinMonet
French Impressionist surname
Claude Monet · Renoir · Impressionism · photorealism · naturalists
GauguinEdgar Degas
French ballet artist
Degas · Toulouse-Lautrec · Manet · cosmopolitan · urbane