| | Thanks for putting up with me, Hong. :-) You wrote:
I've always liked Gauguin's portraits of simple Tahiti natives (not the ones with complicated mystic themes). They are earthy, robust, serene, and completely unpretentious. They might be considered exotic to the then Europeans, but are closer to me than the typical figures in the western art.
Paul Gauguin made an interesting choice in life, to say the least. He turned his back on Western civilization in order to -- how can I put this delicately? -- drownd himself in hot naked underage Polynesian chicks. ;-) As I said, interesting...
I think Gauguin is a somewhat crude painter, but with a pretty good sense of color (as you alluded to), and unusual, exotic subject matter. He may have been flat-out lazy in his work owing to too much of at least some version of paradise. I once saw an exhibit of his where at least one painting (I think a mother and daughter facing straight out) was pretty sophisticated, and seemed to show great talent. But most of his paintings are at least distinctive and compelling.
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Still life and three puppies
