Working year: 189 1 year.

Material: oil painting

Paul gauguin, Gauguin 1873 began to paint and collect painters' works. He owns the works of pissarro, Manet, Renoir, Monet, Sisley and Cezanne. 1876, Gauguin's works were selected for Paris Salon; The following year, he made his first sculpture. Gradually, Gauguin became more and more focused on artistic creation. He participated in the last four impressionist exhibitions.

? 1883 Become a professional painter. Once United with a group of immature young painters to form Puntawang School of Painting. After 1895, he was mentally stimulated and attempted suicide due to health reasons and financial support interruption. His artistic view is driven by symbolism and does not satisfy impressionist painting. 1897 "Where are we from? Who Are We? Where are we going? It is a typical work to introduce readers into the seemingly illusory continuation of time and space in the form of dreams. Another work, Two Tahitian Women, pursues originality of expression and contains delicate interest and artistic charm.

Gauguin's early paintings, experimental and formal, remind people of his works in barbizon school, and later moved to pissarro. In the early stage of 1880s, Gauguin relaxed and widened the brush strokes, giving the picture a quivering rhythm feature. The color shows signs of later development, but it is still very formal. He blocks colors and enhances the brightness of colors freely: for example, he paints shadows in bright blue and roofs in red to make them stand out in the background.

Gauguin used plane color painting in technique, paying attention to harmony rather than contrast. Fantasy after Preaching is the representative work of this artistic treatment. His painting style is quite different from impressionism. Strong outlines and simplified graphics expressed by subjective colors are all subject to geometric patterns, thus achieving musical, rhythmic and decorative effects. His theory and practice have influenced a large number of painters, and he is known as an artistic innovator who has had an important influence on French painting after Impressionism.

189 1 year, Gauguin's portrait Girl in Tahiti is a real masterpiece. He loves the rude but healthy beauty of Tahiti women, his naive and straightforward personality, and he appreciates the hot and rich colors on their skin. He is so fascinated by his models that he can't sacrifice them for his own synthesis. So he describes the object comprehensively, but never comprehensively. There is no abstract factor in the image, and every line and tone is full of praise and joy. Gauguin's desperate and sad tone has completely disappeared in this painting. He regained peace, humanity and happiness in the forest far from civilization and the capital Barbier. In joy, he found the accurate contrast between light and shade and the stable color harmony, instead of the crazy color harmony before. Brown skin, blue-black hair and blue-purple clothes (separated by a few pieces of rose and white) are displayed in front of a bright background, the upper part of which is orange, the lower part is red, and some green leaves are scattered. Even some defects in structure, proportion, volume and light expression have become valuable things, because they reflect the freshness and vividness of expression and the unrestrained creation of artists. Gauguin later created some beautiful works like this, but better works never appeared again.