Paul Guaguin was born Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin. He was a post Impressionism painter who inspired many great artist’s such as Van Gough who he lived with until Van Gough’s bizarre and some times violent behavior forced him out of the house.
Paul Gauguin was a painter, sculpture, also good with ceramics and engraving. He inspired the art of Primitivism.
Paul Guaguin was born in Paris France on June, 7th, 1848 to parents Clovis Guaguin who was a journalist and Aline Maria Chazal who was half Peruvian and the daughter of proto – socialist leader Flora Tristion. In 1851 the family moved to Peru but on the way there, Paul’s father died. Paul would have been eight years old.
With just their mother , Paul and his sister would eventually move to Lima Peru and they would stay there with family for three years. When Paul was seven, his family moved back to France. They moved to the town of Orleans France under the roof of their grandfather.
At seventeen, Paul enlisted on as a merchant marine and three years would go by until he enlisted in the navy.
In 1871 after two years in the Navy, he moved back to France in were he got a job as a stock stockbroker. In 1873 he met fell in love and married a Danish women named Mette-Sophie Gad. Within the next decade they had five children.
Paul knew even as a child that he loved art and he was quite good at it. He studied the galleries in Paris and often bought new up coming artist’s work. He met a fellow artist who was pretty well known in Paris named Camile Pissarro who introduced him to other artist’s such as Paul Cezanne.
In 1884 him and his family moved to Copenhagen were he continued his career as a stockbroker. By 1885 though he began to long to paint full time, He believed that was his destiny. He then moved to Paris were he left his wife and children. They went broke and had to move in with her parents.
In 1887 Paul spent several months with a fellow artist named Saint Pierre in Martinique. Paul became fascinated with the dealings with those in ordinary lives and began to observe and paint them.
He also grew sick with dysentery andmarsh fever. While there Paul created around fifteen to twenty paintings. He traveled many places there and became friend with the local Indian immigrants were he painted many of their symbols.
Paul along with other fellow artist’s often traveled to the artist colony of Pont-Aven in Brittany.
Paul lived with the fellow artist Vincent Van Gough for nine months and like Van Gough battled sever bouts of depression and tried to commit suicide but failed.
Paul became bored with impressionism because he thought it rather dull and lifeless. But he saw in Africa they still had many symbols along with bright colors witch would inspire many of his paintings. It was a good thing because his works became different from the rest of the art community. He was invited to participate in the 1889 exhibition organized by Les XX.
He loved to paint different cultures such as symbols of Japan and other far east countrys. Gauguin then moved to cloisnnnism witch is a style of painting witch involves brush strokes of flat areas of color and bold out lines.
In 1891 broke and depressed about not getting noticed by any one it seemed, moved to the tropics were he could get away from the many critics of Europe. He briefly worked on the panama canals construction but got himself fired after only two weeks.
He was now living in Mataiea village in Tahiti were he painted “Fatata te Miti” and “ Ia Orana Maria” His works at this time were full of symbolism and brilliant colors of the culture of Polynesia.
In 1903 he was sentenced to three months of prison due to the government . He often took sides with the tribes rather than the government and this is what got him into trouble. At this time, Gauguin was helped out by an art dealer named Ambroise Vossard who died of alcoholism and syphilis before he could do his time in prison.
Gauguin finally died on May,8th 1903 buried in the Calvary cemetery Atuona HivaOa Marqueses islands.
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