In his youth he worked at the Paris Stock Exchange and painted in his spare time. In his spare time he began to paint but soon took his hobby seriously.
Gauguin’s work has influenced the French avant-garde and many contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. It became popular after his death, and many of his paintings belonged to Russian collector Sergei Shchukin, an important figure in the symbolist movement as artist, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist and writer.
He became known as a colorful and controversial avant-garde artist in the process, largely thanks to works from these remote places sent for sale and display in Europe. He first traveled to Pont-Aven, Brittany, where he became acquainted with Emile Bernard (1868-1941 )’s art style of bold and flat forms. Gauguin then traveled to Arles to join Vincent Van Gogh, which proved to be an important, albeit emotionally turbulent, artistic encounter for both men.
Gauguin made his last trip to the Pacific Islands in 1891, with a sporadic return to Paris, when he moved to Tahiti as head of a state-funded artistic mission and began to achieve notable success. He worked as a stockbroker in Paris before pursuing a career in art.
Gauguin was born on 7 June 1848 in Paris of the Clovis Gauguin family and Aline Maria Chazal, a 34-year-old liberal journalist, born from a family of bourgeois entrepreneurs living in Orleans and fled France to Peru in 1849 for repercussions from Louis Napoleon (later Emperor Napoleon III) who did not receive the support of the Clovis newspaper as presidential candidate for the Republic. Gauguin was forced to flee France when the French authorities closed the newspaper for which he had voted
However, little attention was paid to his works as they were overshadowed by the huge work of Georges Seurat in 1884 and 1884 with the Paris Salon d’Automne in 1903 and an even larger one in 1906, both of which had an extraordinary and powerful influence on the French avant-garde and particularly the paintings of Pablo Picasso.
The force generated by. Gauguin’s work led directly to Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907. Gauguin’s paintings in Martinique were exhibited by Vincent Van Gogh and his brother Theo, an art dealer whose firm Goupil & Cie maintained a relationship with the receptionist, who bought three paintings by Gauguin for 900 francs and hung them in Gupils and thus introducing Gauguin to wealthy clients.
After his death Gauguin’s art became popular in part thanks to the efforts of the merchant Ambroise Vollard who organized exhibitions of his work at the end of his career and helped organize two major posthumous exhibitions in Paris. Gauguin was invited in 1879 to participate in the group’s fourth exhibition and his work was found among the works of Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and other great artists.
His use of vibrant colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts in paintings stood him apart from his contemporaries, helping to smooth the path to the artistic movement of primitivism.
Gauguin influenced many avant-garde designs of the early 20th century, including the eighth and last exhibition of the Impressionists in 1886 showing 19 paintings and a carved wooden relief. Unrecognized until his death. Gauguin is now known for his experimental use of color and synthetic style, which were markedly different from Impressionism.
After Gauguin’s death in Central Europe, symbolism experienced a late heyday in the works of the Vienna Secession and in particular Gustav Klimt whose paintings convey a deep admiration for the productive and destructive forces of female sexuality. Gauguin’s bold experiments with color led directly to the synthetic style of contemporary art while his expression of the inner meaning of objects in his paintings, influenced by the style of the cloisonné elite, paved the way for primitivism and a return to
