Gauguin And Van Gogh

French by birth and nationality, Paul Gauguin (1848-1908) , was an artist who abandoned his family, left behind a successful banking career and moved to Tahiti. He did this in order to pursue his romantic dream of living a primitive life enveloped in truth and becoming one with nature. So, Gauguin left behind France and Europe. He became a pioneer of modern art, a trailblazer in using color for purely decorative or emotional purposes. His goal was to capture the impulsive and instinctive impulses of the artist through painting. Gauguin did not paint in a naturalist style. Instead, he used simplified dimensions in an expressionist manner, with flat, bright colors, which could be arbitrary with no correspondence to the real colors of his subject matter. A philosophically oriented artist, in 1907-98 Gauguin painted in Tahiti 'Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? '. The large size, 374 cm x 139 cm canvas, shows a group of native women. The central Biblical Eve like figure is picking a fruit. A remarkable emancipator of color, The Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) was a formative influence on modern art Under the influence of Delacroix and Japanese prints, Van Gogh's palette changed from subdued colors to brilliant hues and agitated brushwork laden with thick paint. His style changed in his Arles period. Van Gogh celebrated light and color through his art. He was a trailblazer in Expressionist art, a style characterized by distortion and exageration of form and color indicating emotional effects, the artistist's subjective feelings and internal state of mind. Colors by expressionist artists might be used in an irrational way, without realistic correspondence to the external world. Thus, the grass might be painted red and the sky in yellow. Van Gogh and Gauguin knew each other well and for a while the two artists had a friendly relationship. However, at some point a strained relationship arose between them. They quarelled and their amity ended in violence. ReplyForward