Paul Gauguin / Tahitian Landscape / 1891

Paul Gauguin
Tahitian Landscape
1891
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Creator Name: Gauguin, Paul
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1848 - 1903
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Paul Gauguin
Title: Tahitian Landscape
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1891
Creation End Date: 1891
Creation Date: 1891
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: oil on canvas
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.26-3/4 x W.36-3/8 in.
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 49.10
Credit Line: The Julius C. Eliel Memorial Fund
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

Paul Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1891 in search of new, exotic motifs, but also to escape European civilization, which he felt was artificial and spiritually bankrupt. This picture, one of the first he painted in the South Seas, exhibits the artist's characteristic Post-Impressionist style. In it, Gauguin used sinuous contours and intense colors to express the joy and serenity inspired by the lush tropical site.

Tahiti would become Gauguin's home for most of the last twelve years of his life. He once said of his Tahitian paintings that he had been "eager to suggest a luxurious and untamed nature, a tropical sun that sets aglow everything around it...the equivalent of the grandeur, depth, and mystery of Tahiti when it must be expressed in one square meter of canvas."

AMICA ID: MIA_.49.10
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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