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**Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
# France (worked extensively in Tahiti)
Paul Gauguin was one of the most restless and iconoclastic artists of the late 19th century: a former stockbroker turned painter who deliberately left Western conventions behind to search for a more direct, symbolic language of color and form. Frustrated with Impressionism’s fleeting effects, he developed Synthetism and often worked in what critics call cloisonnist ways flattening space, outlining shapes, and using broad, decorative fields of color to convey mood and myth rather than literal light.
Gauguin’s Tahiti period (from 1891 onward) fused exoticized island subject matter with intense personal symbolism: ritual scenes, reclining figures, and enigmatic compositions that read like visual poems.
His paintings deliberately reject photographic naturalism skin might be painted green or violet, backgrounds become patterned planes, and symbolic objects (flowers, crosses, birds) anchor a private cosmology. While his work is visually intoxicating- bold color, flattened perspective, and carved silhouettes -it’s also complex and controversial: the images reflect colonial dynamics, mythmaking, and Gauguin’s self-mythology.
Ultimately, his legacy is a style that privileges emotional truth and archetypal imagery over imitation of nature.
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