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Paul Gauguin (1848–1903).
Summing up
CAREER
• Gauguin came
late to art,
beginning his
artistic career in
Paris;
• in search for an
Edenic paradise
and “primitive” art
STYLE
• color free from
mimetic
representation;
• forms distorted for
expressive
purposes
LEGACY
• he pioneered the
Symbolist art
movement in
France and set
the stage for
Fauvism and
Expressionism
CLIL - Liceo "Agnesi" Milano Silvia Caldarini

Early Career
• Early childhood in Lima.
• Nomadic life (merchant marines in India and the Black
Sea).
• By 1873, he got married, settled in Paris as a
stockbroker and developed an amateur interest in art.
• 1882 the stock market crashed = full-time artist.
• Impressionist landscapes, still-lifes, and interiors
influenced by Pissarro and Cézanne, but his pictures
showed a preoccupation with dreams, and evocative
symbols

1886-’90 - Brittany
He lived, on and
off, in Brittany
from 1886 to
1890, improving
his interest in
medieval art and
in primitive
sculpture,
Romanesque,
Far and Near
Estern art
Le Pouldu
Pont Aven

1886-’90 Brittany
• He abandoned
Impressionism in favor of
Synthetism.
• His art aimed at expressing
the primitive essence of
Breton life.
• 1888 second visit to Pont-
Aven = encounter with the
artist Émile Bernard
• The Vision After the Sermon
became the clarion call for
Symbolist art.
Pont-Aven - The Harbour and
the Wood

Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel), 1888, Oil on Canvas, 72,2 x 91. National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
He used
broad, matt
fields of non-
naturalistic
color to
express the
transcendent
visions of
Breton
peasant
women.

Eugene Delacroix, Jacob Wrestling
with the Angel, 1855-1861, Mural,
Chapel of the Holy Angels, Church
of Saint-Sulpice, Paris.
HOKUSAI: SUMO. Japanese Sumo wrestlers
practicing for a match. Woodblock print,
1817, by Katsushika Hokusai for his 'Manga'.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858),
The Plum Blossom Garden at
Kameido, 1857, From "One
Hundred Famous Views of
Edo"; Woodblock print, 13 1/4 x
8 5/8 in; The Brooklyn Museum
STAINED GLASS EXAMPLES FROM
EUROPEAN CHURCHES ,1890,
Chromolithograph, Antique Color
Lithograph. 12 X 9 1/2 inches

Arles – Paris - Brittany and Beyond
• In October of 1888, he left
Brittany for Arles, where he
joined Vincent van Gogh,
• Their collaboration ended
abruptly.
• Back in Paris. His exhibition
was a commercial failure
• 1889 Le Pouldu a series of
self-portraits relating himself to
Jesus Christ.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Self-
portrait, 1889. Oil on wood 79,2 x
51,3 cm. Washington, National
Gallery of Art

1891–’93
1st Tahitian Trip
• 1889 Exposition Universelle
– the colonial pavilions and
the desire for an exotic,
preindustrial locale.
• 1891 Tahiti = new synthetic
style (a hybrid of various
Western and Eastern sources)
• 1893 back to Paris

1895-1903
2nd Tahitian Trip
• 1895 – he decided to return
to Tahiti permanently but
soon became disillusioned
with the colonial
corruption of Tahiti.
• 1901 – he left Tahiti for the
Marquesan island of Hiva
Oa, perpetually searching
for a lost paradise.
• 1903 - He died there having
become a legend for a new
generation of artists

Paul Gauguin, Nevermore, 1897, Oil on Canvas, 116 x
60.5 cm. The Courtauld Gallery, London
In Poe’s poem The Raven, the bird is an ominous presence
standing above the poet’s door, croaking “Nevermore”.
“I wished to
suggest by means
of a simple nude
a certain long-
lost barbarian
luxury …. as a
title Nevermore;
not the raven of
Edgar Allan Poe,
but the bird of
the devil that is
keeping watch.”
(Gauguin)

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