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Primitive Soul
Gauguin
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/23/2008

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  • Gauguin Vision after the Sermon
  • 1888
  • grand abstracted vision, simplication of forms (primitive)
  • flat colors (very different from Impressionist tasch)
  • idea that art made by a human being is better than nature  or mimetically copying it
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  • Gauguin The Yellow Christ
  • 1889
  • biblical scenes depicted as avante-garden and abstract
  • crude
  • nunanced whips and vails of color
  • hermetesism: rejected an obvious, literal meaning
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  • Gauguin Two Tahitian Women
  • 1899
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  • Gauguin Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
  • 1897
  • suiggestiveness and mystery
  • androgynous, youthful
  • traditional western religious spiritualism
  • depicts cyclic character of human life
  • used adjacent, no complimentary colors
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  • Gauguin Day of the Gods
  • 1894
  • shockingly original colors
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