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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) 
Aliases: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin; Eugene Henry Paul Gauguin; Paul (1843) Gauguin; Paul (1848) Gauguin; Paul Eugène Henri Gauguin; Kao-keng
Professions: Painter; Sculptor; Still life painter; Flower painter
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Paul Gauguin , 1848-1903 Te Poipoi (Le Matin) Oil on canvas
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Nature morte aux fruits et piments
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Te fare Hymenee (La maison des chants)
Biography: Gauguin
(b Paris, 7 June 1848; d Atuona, Marquesas Islands, 8 May 1903). French painter, printmaker, sculptor and ceramicist. His style developed from Impressionism through a brief cloisonnist phase (in partnership with Emile Bernard) towards a highly personal brand of Symbolism, which sought within the tradition of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes to combine and contrast an idealized vision of primitive Polynesian culture with the sceptical pessimism of an educated European. A selfconsciously outspoken personality and an aggressively asserted position as the leader of the Pont-Aven group made him a dominant figure in Parisian intellectual circles in the late 1880s. His use of non-naturalistic colour and formal distortion for expressive ends was widely influential on early 20th-century avant-garde artists.
Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online
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