I Raro Te Oviri (1891) by Paul Gauguin
About The Artwork
Gauguin expected a complete primitive life in a tropical and exotic environment when leaving for Tahiti and French Polynesia. Even if the environment and the nature he found himself in were tropical and exotic, life wasn't completely primitive. It disappointed Gauguin, so he didn't paint his paintings in Tahiti. Instead, he carried his experiences with him back to Paris to depict them from memory and add fantasy to them, and he did so by adding vivid and strong colours to bring his fantasy to life.
Paul Gauguin
Many artists did not have a straightforward path to becoming an artist; however, few had as many twists and turns as the one of Gauguin.
He was born in Paris, but at the age of 2, his family left for Peru, and his father died of a heart attack during their travels, so they stayed in Peru Grandmother to attain a quality education.
After living and studying in Paris and New Orleans and spending some time working in the military, he finally settled in Paris, where he worked as a stockbroker. This allowed him to earn good money and to invest a lot of time and money into the art market; however, the market crash of 1882 made him broke and unemployed, but it allowed him to pursue painting full time.
However, it was more than just the lack of money that drove him to paint full time; when he married a Danish woman, he moved to Copenhagen and tried a career as a businessman, which did not work out well at all after 11 years in Denmark he realised that painting was his one true passion.
After years of struggling back in Paris, his artistic career finally picked up some steam, allowing him to travel to Tahiti in French Polynesia, where he created the paintings that we know him best for today.
Gauguin’s art and its historic meaning may not be understated. His work opened up the eyes of the French audience to a population relatively unknown beyond colonisation, and his work humanised the subjects of his paintings rather than being seen as beasts that needed to be civilised.
Oh, and by the way, Gauguin spent nine weeks with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, where one of their arguements ended with van Gogh confronting Gauguin with a razor, the same razor he cut off his ear with later that night.
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