Paul Gauguin - Landscape 1901 with description

Paul Gauguin - Landscape 1901

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From Paris, Musee de l'Orangerie:
Amidst luxuriant equatorial plants and trees, a group of minute figures seem lost in the vegetation. In the background, a white house is hidden behind the trees. Three children walk along behind a man dressed in black who looks like a missionary priest. The work was in fact once entitled Le Curé et les enfants [The Priest and the Children]. This painting dated 1901 probably depicts a landscape on the Marquesan island of Hivaoa. It was probably painted just after Gauguin left Tahiti in September 1901 for the Marquesas Islands, where he died in 1903. In these landscapes, Gauguin glorifies above all the beauty of a natural world that is as yet untamed, just as he did when he arrived in Martinique, Brittany and Tahiti.
The stylised forms, the composition with tiered planes annihilating the perspective, the modulated shades of green, achieved with the long hatched brushstrokes of the trees, and the meadow in the centre of the composition are all typical of Gauguin’s landscapes in his later years.

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