Paul Gauguin - Women and white horse 1903, painting analysis

Paul Gauguin - Women and white horse 1903

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From Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
At the end of his life, immobilized by chronic syphilis and heart disease, Gauguin continued to paint the lush landscapes that surrounded his house on Hiva Oa, a Pacific island in the remote Marquesas chain. A Technicolor cascade of mountainside and tropical vegetation frames the frieze-like group of three native women and a white horse, an animal sometimes associated in the artist’s work with death or transcendence. On the hilltop above stands a single cross—a rare acknowledgment by Gauguin of French missionary activity in Polynesia. It marks the cemetery where the artist’s body was laid to rest shortly after he completed the painting.

Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who
liked to paint the enclosed spaces of stage shows, leisure activities and
pleasure spots.In a cafe, a fashionable meeting place, a man and a woman,
although sitting side-by-side, are locked in silent isolation - art-Degas.com

The portrait of Madame Cézanne in a yellow armchair is as simple in
appearance as it is monumental. The subject’s individuality seems to
have been less important to Cézanne than his construction of the figure
from coloured forms of an almost stereometric nature - art-Cezanne.com

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Paul Gauguin 1848-1903