Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

Biography

Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848. His father was Louis Pierre Guillaume Clovis Gauguin (1814-1851), a journalist Republican National. His mother, Aline Chazal (1825-1867) was the daughter of Flora Tristan and therefore, according to some authors, the granddaughter of Simon Bolivar and Theresa Gainsay. She descended from landowners Spanish of South America and, according to legend, a viceroy of Peru (Paul, 1992).

It is part of the 1879-1886 five group exhibitions of the Impressionists. On the sidelines of the Impressionists, Gauguin was probably with Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh, the painter of the late nineteenth century who had the greatest influence on the movements of the twentieth century painting. This influence is less likely in his painting in his writings, which contain formulas which, as said Leon Gard flatter this penchant for recipes outlandish men, along with their instincts unleashed rascals who get drunk to indiscipline that, How do you see this tree? Gauguin wrote, Green? Therefore put the most beautiful green your palette, and this shadow? Rather blue? Do not be afraid to paint it as blue as possible, or do not copy too much from nature.In the beginning Paul Gauguin painted in the style of Corot and had even admitted to the Salon of 1876. In 1874, in Arrosa he met Pissarro, who initiated the Impressionist landscape and to communicate the sense of pictorial composition.

THE WAKE OF IMPRESSIONNISTES

During the years 1874-1886, Paul Gauguin was going to move in the wake of the Impressionist movement. As a collector, he showed himself bold buying early works by Pissarro, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Guillaumin, Cassatt, and Degas. He might win a special friendship with Pissarro and Degas, which remains, despite a falling passenger, one of its most passionate supporters, purchasing repeatedly paintings. As a painter, his paintings remain very close to ...