Gauguin

How To Use Gauguin In A Sentence

• The firsts were created to decorate his friend Paul Gauguin's bedroom.
• Paul Gauguin's primitive was not Pablo Picasso's, and - despite their mutual reliance on West Mexican grave goods as source materials - Kahlua's primitives were not Kahlo's.
• Because Gauguin simplified and archaized the figures, he did not sully the dignity of the four Arlesian women arrayed as if in ritual procession.
• In 1891, broke and despairing of recognition as an artist, Gauguin sailed for the South Seas, seeking liberation, as he famously said, "from everything that is artificial and conventional. Tate Modern Exhibition Makes a Fresh Case for Gauguin
• Gauguin etc. opened up a vast range of new colourism unimaginable to academic painters. Kottu
• How would the uses of the prints in a devotional context revise Gauguin's notion of the function of his own sacred art?
• Should we marvel then at the Cynics and the hippies, the Rousseaus and the Gauguins, sensitive souls that pilgrimaged towards incorporeal spirit, but found the altar crowded with genuflections before idolatrous matter? In Quest of Happiness
• This directed Gauguin's search for sacred art away from our world of afflictions, through a penitential view of personal martyrdom to a symbolist, dreamlike transcendence available to initiates alone.
• Eventually, one evening, while sitting in the town's Café de la Gare, Van Gogh hurled a full glass of absinthe at Gauguin before breaking down and being carried home to bed.
• Underlit by a blanket of fine coral sand, the colour of the ocean has the tropical palette of a Paul Gauguin painting and its turquoise-spearmint hues never dull with repeat viewing.