Paul Gauguin and artworks E-Book

Jp. A. Calosse

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 57

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the painter’s brush full time. Following the lead of Cézanne, Gauguin painted still-lifes from the very beginning of his artistic career. He even owned a still-life by Cézanne, which is shown in Gauguin’s painting Portrait of Marie Lagadu. The year 1891 was crucial for Gauguin. In that year he left France for Tahiti, where he stayed till 1893. This stay in Tahiti determined his future life and career, for in 1895, after a sojourn in France, he returned there for good. In Tahiti, Gauguin discovered primitive art, with its flat forms and violent colours, belonging to an untamed nature. With absolute sincerity, he transferred them onto his canvas. His paintings from then on reflected this style: a radical simplification of drawing; brilliant, pure, bright colours; an ornamental type composition; and a deliberate flatness of planes. Gauguin termed this style “synthetic symbolism”.

Leseprobe

Jp. A. Calosse

Paul Gauguin

and artworks

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ISBN: 978-1-78160-962-0

Contents

Biography

List of Illustrations

A

Aha oe feii? (What? Are You Jealous?)

Aïta tamari vahine Judith te parari (Annah the Javanese)

Among the Waves (Ondine)

Arearea (Happiness)

B

Barbaric Tales

Bathers

Bathers in Dieppe

Bé bé (The Nativity)

Blue Trees

Breton Children on the Seaside

Breton Landscape with Pigs

Breton Peasant Women

Bretons and Calf

Buddha

C

Café at Arles

Christ in the Garden of Olives

Corner of a Pond

D

Dieppe Beach

Double Portrait of Children

E

E haera oe i hia?(Where Are You Going?)

Eiaha ohipa (Tahitians in a Room)

Eu haere ia oe (Where Are You Going?) Or Woman Holding a Fruit

Evil’s Word (Eve)

F

Faa iheihe (Preparations for a Feast)

Faaturama (Woman with a Red Dress)

Fatata te miti (On the Seashore)

Fatata te moua (At the Foot of the Mountain) or The Big Tree

Fighting Children

Flower Vase by the Window

G

Garden at Vaugirard

H

Head of a Tahitian Woman

Hello, Mr Gauguin

Hina tefatou (The Moon and the Earth)

Horse on the Road

Human Miseries

Human Miseries (Grape Harvest in Arles)

I

Ice Skaters in the Frederiksberg Park

In the Hay (A Hot Summer Day)

L

La Orana Maria (Ave Maria)

Les Parau Parau (Conversation)

Look Mysterious

M

Mahana no Atua (Day of the God)

Mahana no varua ino (The Day of the Bad Spirit)

Man Picking Fruits

Man with an Axe

Manao Tupapau (The Soul of the Dead Ones is Awake)

Manao Tupapau (Watched by the Spirits of the Dead)

Maruru (Satisfied)

Matamoe (Landscape with Peacocks)

Merabi metua no Tehama (Teha’amana Has Many Parents)

N

Nafea faa ipoipo? (When Will You Marry?)

Nava nava fenua (Delicious Earth)

Nave nave mahana (Delicious Day)

Nave nave moe (Sweet Dreams) or Sacred Spring

Nirvana (Portrait of Meyer de Haan)

Noa Noa

Noa Noa, Sitting Tahitian

O

Old Women in Arles (In the Arles Hospital Garden)

Otahi (Alone)

P

Parau Na Te Varua Ino (Evil’s Words)

Path in Papeete (A Tahitian Street)

Portrait of Jeanne Goupil

Portrait of Meyer de Haan

R

Rave te hiti aamu (The Idol)

Rider

Ruperupe (Gathering Fruit)

S

Scene from Tahitian Life

Seated Breton

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait “Les Misérables”

Self-Portrait “To My Friend Carrière”

Self-Portrait in front of Easel

Self-Portrait near Golgotha

Self-Portrait with a Hat

Self-Portrait with a Palette

Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ

Sleeping Child

Snow Effects (Snow in Rue Carcel)

Still Life with Fruits

Still Life with Grapefruits

Sunflowers

T

Ta matete (The Market)

Tahitian Pastoral Scene

Tarari maruru (Landscape with Two Goats)

Te Alua (The God)

Te arii Vahine (The King’s Wife)

Te avae no Maria (The Month of Mary) Or Woman Carrying Flowers

Te faruru (Making Love)

Te raau rahi (The Big Tree)

Te rerio (The Dream)

Te tamari no atua (Nativity)

Te Tiai na Oe Ite Rata (Are You Waiting for a Letter?)

Te tiare farani (Flowers of France)

Te vaa (The Canoe) Or A Tahitian Family

Teapot and Fruits

The Cellist (Portrait of Upaupa Schneklud)

The Ford (The Flight)

The Four Breton Girls

The Great Buddha

The Holy Night

The Mill in Pont-Aven

The Rest

The Schuffenecker Family

The Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Fighting with the Angel)

The Wave

The Yellow Christ

Three Tahitian Women against a Yellow Background

Two Tahitian Women

V

Vahine no te tiare (Woman with a Flower)

Vaïraumati tei oa (Her Name is Vaïraumati)

Vaïrumati

Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers

W

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Woman with a Fan

Women on the Seashore (Maternity)

Wrack Collectors

Y

Young Breton Bathers

Young Breton Seated

Young Bretons at Bath

Young Tahitian Man (Young Man with a Flower)

Self-Portrait with a Palette

c.1894. Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm. Private Collection

Biography

1848

Paul Gauguin born in Paris, on June 7.

1849

The family left France for Peru; his father died at sea.

1855-1861

Returned to France after a five-year stay in Lima. Lived in Orleans, his father’s native town. Studied at the Petit Seminaire.

1861(?)-1865

Moved with his mother to Paris. Attended high school.

1865

Entered the merchant marine as a cabin-boy.

1868-1871

Served in the navy after the disbandment of the French army and navy settled in Paris.

1871-1873

Worked as a stockbrocker in the banking office of Bertin. In the house of his sister’s guardian, Gustave Arosa, began to take interest in art. Became acquainted with Camille Pissarro and Emile Schuffenecker. First amateur efforts at painting.

1873-1875

Married Mette Sophie Gad, a Dane from Copenhagen. Attended the Atelier Colarossi, acquired a collection of Impressionist pictures. The Seine by the Pont d’Iena.

1876

Exhibited a landscape at the official Salon.

1877

Took lessons from the sculptor Jules Ernest Bouillot and produced his first sculptures.

1880

Exhibited in the 5th Impressionist exhibition (seven paintings and a marble bust).

1881

Participated in the 6th Impressionist exhibition (eight paintings and two sculptures). Spent the summer holidays in Pontoise with Pissarro who introduced him to Cézanne.

1882

Took part in the 7th Impressionist exhibition (twelve oils and pastels, one sculpture).

1883

Resigned from his job at Bertin’s and devoted himself entirely to painting with Pissarro at Osny, where he spent his holidays studying.

1884-1885

Moved with his family first to Rouen, and then to Copenhagen, where he executed a number of paintings and wooden sculptures. Displayed interest in the Symbolist theories. Short show at the Society of the Friends of Art, Copenhagen. Left his wife and four children in the Danish capital and returned to Paris with his six-year-old son Clovis. Went to London for three weeks, later lived in Dieppe, where he made friends with Edgar Degas.

1886

Lived by turns in Pont-Aven (Brittany) and Paris; made ceramics at Ernest Chaplet’s workshop. Represented in the 8th Impressionist exhibition (nineteen paintings).

1887

In April, with Charles Laval, left for Panama, then moved to Martinique. Back in Paris in November, where he met Van Gogh. Organized his first one-man show at Boussod and Valadon, which included ceramics as well as Brittany and Martinique paintings. Became acquainted with Daniel de Monfreid.

1888