Biography of Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin – French artist, graphic artist, engraver, was born in Paris in the family of a journalist and Franco-Peruvian.
At the beginning of his biography Paul Gauguin was a sailor, later a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874, he began to paint, at first on the weekends. By the age of 35, with the support of Camille Pissarro, Gauguin devoted himself entirely to art, leaving his way of life, having retired from his wife and five children. Having established a connection with the Impressionists, Gauguin exhibited his works with them from 1879 to 1886. The following year he left for Panama and Maritinika. Struggling against the “disease” of civilization, Gauguin decided to live according to the principles of primitive man. However, physical illness forced him to return to France. The following years in his biography Paul Gauguin spent in Paris, Brittany, having made a short but tragic stop in Arles with van Gogh.
In 1888, Gauguin and Emil Bernard
In 1893, a biography of Gauguin returned to France. He presented several of his works. This artist renewed the interest of the public, but earned very little money. Broken by the spirit, sick with syphilis, which has been hurting him for many years, Gauguin again moves to the southern seas, to Oceania. There were spent the last years of Gauguin’s life, there he hopelessly, physically suffered. In 1897, Gauguin tried to commit suicide, but could not. Then he spent five more years drawing. He died on the island of Khiva-Oa.
Today, Gauguin is considered an artist who exerted an extremely great influence on contemporary art. He renounced the traditional
In the USA, there are a lot of works by Gauguin, including “The Day of the God”, “Ia Orana Maria”, “By the Sea”, “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” . The work of William Somerset Maugham “The Moon and the Farthing”, built on the events of Gauguin’s life, did much to promote the legend of the artist, which arose shortly after his death.
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