Paul Gauguin Research Paper

Paul Gauguin:
Vision After the Sermon Paul Gauguin was born to a journalistic father and a socialistic mother June 7, 1948. As a young child, Gauguin’s parents decided to start a new life in a new city due to the political climate. Tragedy stole away Gauguin’s father on their journey to their new life. Spending a few years in Peru, the city in which his father dreamed of living, Gauguin moved back to France, his birth place. Still young, Gauguin began to pursue excellence in his schooling, learning new things like French. As mandated by his country at the time, Paul had to enter the military. At age seventeen, he decided upon a military career as a merchant marine. After serving for three years, he decided to join the navy in
Gauguin painted pieces that he knew would take the public some time to accept. Nonetheless, he wanted material comfort, he wanted his artwork to bring him wealth. Although he did not receive materialistic things in life, in death he received a name for himself, and his artwork would be remembered in future generations. The Paul Gauguin Museum in Tahiti is a museum remembering Gauguin for all his accomplishments and achievements. John Gould Fletch also writes “Though he never conquered the flesh…he remained to the end, and man…certainly the better stone in which to build”. Gauguin wrote a letter a few days before death, received after death, he ended his life with these thoughts, “I am on the ground but I am not
He abandoned his family, uprooted himself when he felt that his work was not being appreciated. He was hungry for attention, and he died early due to his obsessive alcohol and tobacco usage. In the “Vision After the Sermon”, he managed to obtain a strange atmosphere. The colors that he portrayed give the mysterious, unreal feeling that he would rather focus on making something magic-like, than factual. From the standpoint of a viewer, the artist portrayed a personal struggle in front of an audience to watch the action take place. This portrays a judgmental aspect. For a crowd to surround a struggle of this nature represents interest, mystery in “what’s going on”, and judgment. Gauguin should have portrayed the struggle in a personal manner, secluded. This artist’s use of colors attracts an eye, but he is more worried about stranding out. He creates work that is