Paul Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin
Painter, Sculptor 1848 1903
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• Born on June 7, 1848 in Paris, france
• Mother was peruvian, family lived Peru for 4
  years
• Family returns to France when he is 7
• Serves in the Merchant Marine, then the French
  Navy
• Returns to Paris and becomes a Stockbroker
• Marries a danish woman and they have 5 children
• They live in Copenhagen where he is a stockbroker
• Paints in his free time buys art in galleries
  and makes friends with artists

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Portrait of Madame Gauguin (1880)

• Decides he wants to paint full time leaves his
  family in Copenhagen and goes back to Paris
• His early work is in the impressionist style
  which is very popular at that time
• He is not very successful at his art, he is poor
• Leaves France to find a simpler life on a
  tropical island

Aline Gauguin Brothers (1883)
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Visits his friend Vincent vanGogh in Arles,
France where they both paint They quarrel, with
van Gogh famously cutting off part of his own
ear Gauguin leaves france and never sees van Gogh
again
Night Café at Arles (1888)
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Decides he doesnt like impressionism, prefers
native art of africa and asia because it has more
meaning (symbolism) He paints flat areas of color
and bold outlines He lives in Tahiti and paints
images of Polynesian life
The Siesta (1892)
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Tahitian women on the beach (1891)
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• His art is in the Primitivist style- exaggerated
  body proportions, animal symbolism, geometric
  designs and bold contrasting colors
• Gauguin is the first artist of his time to become
  successful with this style (so different from the
  popular impressionism)
• His work influences other painters, especially
  Pablo Picasso

When do you get married? (1892)
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Gauguin spent the remainder of his life painting
and living in the Marquesas Islands, a very
remote, jungle-like place in French Polynesia
(close to Tahiti)
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Gauguins house, Atuona, Marquesas Islands
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Gauguin lived alone in the jungle, where one
day his houseboy arrived to find him dead, with a
smile on his face. He was 54 years old (1903). He
is buried among the natives on the island.
Gauguins grave
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Georges-Pierre Seurat
Painter 1859 1891
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• Born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, france
• Wealthy family
• Studies art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
• Devotes himself first to mastering the art of
  black and white drawing

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Bathers at Asniéres (1884)

• His first major painting, bathers at Asniéres, is
  rejected by the Paris salon (the salon was a huge
  annual exhibition where art was judged before it
  could be shown, it decided what art and which
  artists were in)
• In response, he joins other artists in forming
  the Société des Artistes Indépendants

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• Scientists of this time were writing about
  theories of color and how the eye sees things.
  They discover that when seen from a distance, two
  differently colored dots seem to blend into a
  third color. Painters jump on this idea and start
  painting with small colorful dots placed close
  together rather than solid colored strokes of
  pre-mixed paint
• This is called Pointillism

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Seurat believed that the emotion of happiness
could be shown through bright, warm colors and
the use of lines directed upward. Calm is shown
by balancing light and dark, warm and cold colors
and lines that are horizontal (sideways). Sadness
is shown by using dark colors and lines that
point down.
Eiffel Tower (1889)
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In the summer of 1884, Seurat began work on his
most famous painting Sunday afternoon on the
Island of La Grande Jatte. It was a huge
10-foot-wide painting and it took him two years
to paint. The original painting now lives at the
Art Institute of Chicago
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
(1884-86)
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While in the midst of working on new a painting
called the Circus, he died suddenly of an
illness in Paris on March 29 1891. He was 31
years old.
The Circus (1891)