Paul Gauguin Biography Pictures

Eugen Henri Paul Gauguin on June 7-May 8-French painter, sculptor-curamist and graphics. Along with Cezann and Van Gogh, he was the largest representative of post -impressionism. In the beginning of the x began to engage in painting as an amateur. The early period of creativity is associated with impressionism. He participated in the exhibitions of impressionists from the year.

A professional artist since the year. Gauguin's works did not find demand, the artist was poor. Currently, Paul Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7. His father, Clovis Gauguin - was a journalist in the department of the political chronicle of the journal Thier and Arman Mara Naconal, obsessed with radical republican ideas; Mother, Alina Maria - was a native of Peru from a rich family.

Her mother was the famous Flora Tristan - who separated the ideas of utopian socialism and published in the year the autobiographical book “Wandering of Paria”. In the year, after the failed anti -monarchical coup, Clovis, not feeling safe at home, decided to leave France. Together with his family, he plunged on a ship going in Peru, where he intended to settle in the family of his wife Alina and open his own magazine.

These plans were not destined to come true. On the way to South America, Clovis died of a heart attack. Thus, up to the age of seven, Paul lived in Peru and was brought up in his mother’s family. The impressions of childhood, exotic nature, bright national costumes, a carefree life in the uncle’s estate in Lima remained in his memory for life, affecting the indefatigable thirst for travel, in the craving for tropics.

In the year, when the field was 7 years old, he and his mother returned to France to get an inheritance from his father’s line, and settles in Orleans with his grandfather. Gauguin quickly learns to the French language and begins to succeed in education. In the year, Alina opens a sewing workshop in Paris, and her son is preparing to enter the naval school. But he does not withstand the competition and in December is hired as a “cadet”, or a student of Lotsman.

Up to a year, he will be almost continuously in swimming around the world: in South America, in the Mediterranean Sea, in the northern seas. Being in India, he learns about the death of his mother, who in his will recommends him “making a career, since he is completely unable to cause the arrangement of family friends and may soon be very lonely.” However, having arrived in Paris in the year, he receives the support of his friend of the mother of Gustav Aroza, a stock businessman, a photographer and a collector of modern painting since childhood.

Thanks to his recommendations, Gauguin receives the post of exchange broker. In the next ten years, Gauguin's position in society was strengthened. His family occupies more and more comfortable apartments, where special attention is paid to the artist’s workshop. Gauguin, like his guardian Aroza, “collects” the paintings, especially the impressionists, and writes himself.

C - the first landscapes appear for years, one of them will be exhibited in the cabin of the year. Gauguin gets acquainted with the Impressionist artist Kamil Pissarro to, but their friendly relations are stuck from a year. Gogen is invited to participate in the impressionists from the beginning of the year: the collector is gradually perceived seriously as an artist. He spends the summer of a year with Pissarro in the pontuaz, where he writes gardens and rural landscapes, similar to the landscapes of the Master, like all that he will write up to a year.

Pissarro introduces Gauguin to Edgar Degas, who will always support Gauguin, buying his paintings and convincing this to make Duran-Ruel, a merchant of the paintings of impressionists. Degas will become the owner of about 10 Gauguin paintings, including “Beautiful Angela”, “A Woman with a Fruit of Mango”, or “Hina Tefatou” in the year Gauguin moved with his family to Copenhagen, where he continued to work as a broker.

However, after he began to engage in painting all his time, Paul leaves his wife and five children in Denmark and returns to Paris in the year.

In years, Gauguin spends almost all the time in Pont-Awen Brittan, where he communicates with a group of artists close to symbolism. The first time the artist went there in a year, wanting to take a break from Paris and save a bit: life there was noticeably cheaper. The island of Martinika, where Gauguin left in the year with the artist Laval, whom he met in Brittany, helped to accomplish the evolution in the work of the master, making Japanese influences noticeable in his works.

In the years he visited Panama, where he observed the construction of the Panama Canal. In the year, he lived with Van Gogh in Arle for some time and worked with him. The stay ended with a quarrel associated with one of the first attacks of insanity by Van Gogh. Sensing from childhood spent in Peru in the mother’s homeland, a craving for exotic places and considering the civilization “illness”, Gauguin, who thirsts for “merging with nature”, leaves for Tahiti in the year, where he lived in a papet and where he writes as many as 80 paintings.After a short-term one-returning to France, because of illness and lack of funds, he forever leaves for Oceania-first to Tahiti, and from a year to the island of Khiva-Oa, the Markiz Islands, where he takes a young Taite woman as his wife and works in full force: writes landscapes, stories, and she works as a journalist.

On this island, he dies. Despite diseases, including leprosy, poverty and depression that led him to an attempt to suicide, Gauguin wrote his best work there. Observation of the real life and the life of the peoples of Oceania weaves in them with local myths. Glory came to the artist after death, when his works were exhibited in Paris. The influence of Gauguin's work on the art of the 20th century is undeniable.

Gauguin's life formed the basis of the novel by Somerset Moham Moon and Grush. It describes a simple English broker Charles Stickland, who threw a family, work and a house in order to engage in painting. In honor of Gogen, a crater is named for Mercury. The film with Donald Saserland was shot about the last years of Gauguin’s life in the title role “Wolf on the threshold” also there is a film with Kifer Suserland-“Found Paradise” Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin on June 7-May 8-a French painter, a sculptor-curamist and a schedule.