Тема: Gauguin, (Eugène-Henri-) Paul

The novel "The moon and sixpence" (1919) is based on the life of the artist Paul Gauguin was an immediate success. Maugham went to Tahiti and lived in Gauguin 's hut while writing the book.

...movement, lasting only as long as its originator, Henri Matisse (1869-1954), fought to find the artistic freedom he needed. Matisse had to make color serve his art, rather as Gauguin needed to paint the sand pink to express an emotion.

With Cézanne and Gauguin the greatest of Post-Impressionist artists. He powerfully influenced the current of Expressionism in modern art. His work, all of it produced during a period of only 10 years, hauntingly conveys through its striking colour...

He studied at the Munich Art Academy and traveled to Paris several times where he saw the work of Gauguin , Van Gogh, and the Impressionists. With Kandinsky, he founded the almanac "Der Blaue Reiter" in 1911 and organized exhibitions with this name.

They included Degas, Cйzanne, Gauguin , Van Gogh, Seurat, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Toulouse-Lautrec observed and captured in his art the Parisian nightlife of the period.

Гоген Поль ( Gauguin , Paul) (1848-1903 гг.), французский живописец, скульптор и график. Наряду с Сезанном и Ван Гогом был крупнейшим представителем постимпрессионизма.

The leader of the group was Henri Matisse, who had arrived at the Fauve style after careful, critical study of the masters of Postimpressionism Paul Gauguin , Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat.