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About this audiobook
Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the painter’s brush full time. Following the lead of Cézanne, Gauguin painted still-lifes from the very beginning of his artistic career. He even owned a still-life by Cézanne, which is shown in Gauguin’s painting Portrait of Marie Lagadu. The year 1891 was crucial for Gauguin. In that year he left France for Tahiti, where he stayed till 1893. This stay in Tahiti determined his future life and career, for in 1895, after a sojourn in France, he returned there for good. In Tahiti, Gauguin discovered primitive art, with its flat forms and violent colours, belonging to an untamed nature. With absolute sincerity, he transferred them onto his canvas. His paintings from then on reflected this style: a radical simplification of drawing; brilliant, pure, bright colours; an ornamental type composition; and a deliberate flatness of planes. Gauguin termed this style “synthetic symbolism”.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
2Biography
3Garden at Vaugirard
4Flower Vase by the Window
5Snow Effects (Snow in Rue Carcel)
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6Sleeping Child
7Ice Skaters in the Frederiksberg Park
8Dieppe Beach
9Bathers in Dieppe
10Corner of a Pond
11Self-Portrait in front of Easel
12Self-Portrait “To My Friend Carrière”
13Self-Portrait near Golgotha
14Young Bretons at Bath
15The Four Breton Girls
16Seated Breton
17Young Breton Seated
18The Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Fighting with the Angel)
19Blue Trees
20Bretons and Calf
21Fighting Children
22The Wave
23Old Women in Arles (In the Arles Hospital Garden)
24In the Hay (A Hot Summer Day)
25Café at Arles
26Still Life with Fruits
27Human Miseries (Grape Harvest in Arles)
28Self-Portrait “Les Misérables”
29Breton Landscape with Pigs
30Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers
31Young Breton Bathers
32The Yellow Christ
33Wrack Collectors
34The Schuffenecker Family
35Hello, Mr Gauguin
36Breton Children on the Seaside
37Among the Waves (Ondine)
38Christ in the Garden of Olives
39Portrait of Meyer de Haan
40Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ
41Double Portrait of Children
42Look Mysterious
43Self-Portrait
44Nirvana (Portrait of Meyer de Haan)
45Vahine no te tiare (Woman with a Flower)
46Man with an Axe
47Faaturama (Woman with a Red Dress)
48Head of a Tahitian Woman
49Te tiare farani (Flowers of France)
50Les Parau Parau (Conversation)
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