93 gauguin biography

The French postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin arrived on board the Vire in Papeete, Tahiti, late at night. His first vision was of “strange fires, moving in zigzags on the sea” and rising in the darkness behind them a pitch-black jagged kon. Gauguin recorded this and other levande impressions of his 1891-93 stay in his Tahitian journal, “Noa Noa.” His voyage from Marseille to Papeete had taken 63 days. bygd the time he arrived, he was in a state of “feverish expectancy.” His intensiv oro eller upprördhet was generated not simply by Tahiti as a much-anticipated destination but bygd its place in his life as a signifier of new work. This would be the beginning of a new journey into the creative soul.

I was reading Gauguin’s “Noa Noa” on my own journey to Tahiti this past April, on board the cruise ship Ovation of the Seas. My interest began pragmatically. This slim volume of anecdote and reflection would be flesh on the bones of my lecture on

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Paul Gauguin

French artist (1848–1903)

For the cruise ship, see Paul Gauguin (ship). For other uses, see Gauguin (disambiguation).

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; French:[øʒɛnɑ̃ʁipɔlɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) 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.^[1][2] 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.

Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848, amidst the tumult of Europe's revolutionary year. In 1850, Gauguin's family settled in Peru, where he experienced a privileged childhood that left a lasting impression on him. Later, financial struggles led them back to France, where Gauguin received formal education. Initiall

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Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903

Born on June 7, 1848 in Paris, France, Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. Gauguin’s father was a French journalist and his mother was Peruvian. The family left Paris in 1851 for Peru, however Gauguin’s father Clovis, died on the voyage over. Gauguin’s early life experiences in Peru would later have a great influence on the imagery in his paintings. At the age of seven, the family returned to Orléans, France to live with Gauguin’s grandfather.

Though Gauguin had been interested in art since childhood, he held several jobs before turning to painting full-time, including fulfilling his required military service as a pilot’s assistant in the merchant marine. Gauguin also joined the navy, held a job as a stock broker, a sales representative for a canvas manufacturer, and other odd jobs that sustained his painting career.

In 1873, Gauguin married Mette Sophie Gad, a Danish woman with whom he had five children. In his