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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.


Paul Gauguin


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" Gauguin left Arles and a few days later Van Gogh was hospitalized. List of paintings
For a comprehensive list see List of paintings by Paul Gauguin


Gallery


Self-portraits


See also

Frederick Delius (client and friend)
Paul Gauguin's exhibit at Les XX 1889
The Volpini Exhibition 1889
Western painting


Further reading and sources
Danielsson Bengt (1965). Historical significance

Primitivism was an art movement of late 19th century painting and sculpture; characterized by exaggerated body proportions animal totems geometric designs and stark contrasts.

He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter sculptor print-maker ceramist and writer. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pol ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death.

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