Gauguin And Van Gogh Poem by Paul Hartal

French by birth and nationality,
Paul Gauguin (1848-1908) , was an artist
who abandoned his family, left behind
a successful banking career and moved to Tahiti.
He did this in order to pursue his romantic dream
of living a primitive life enveloped in truth
and becoming one with nature.
So, Gauguin left behind France and Europe.
He became a pioneer of modern art,
a trailblazer in using color for purely decorative
or emotional purposes. His goal was to capture
the impulsive and instinctive impulses of the artist
through painting.

Gauguin did not paint in a naturalist style.
Instead, he used simplified dimensions
in an expressionist manner,
with flat, bright colors,
which could be arbitrary with no correspondence
to the real colors of his subject matter.
A philosophically oriented artist,
in 1907-98 Gauguin painted in Tahiti
'Where Do We Come From? What Are We?
Where Are We Going? '. The large size,
374 cm x 139 cm canvas, shows a group of
native women. The central Biblical Eve like figure
is picking a fruit.

A remarkable emancipator of color,
The Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
was a formative influence on modern art
Under the influence of Delacroix
and Japanese prints, Van Gogh's palette changed
from subdued colors to brilliant hues
and agitated brushwork laden with thick paint.
His style changed in his Arles period.
Van Gogh celebrated light and color
through his art. He was a trailblazer
in Expressionist art, a style characterized by
distortion and exageration of form and color
indicating emotional effects, the artistist's
subjective feelings and internal state of mind.
Colors by expressionist artists
might be used in an irrational way,
without realistic correspondence to the external
world. Thus, the grass might be painted red
and the sky in yellow.

Van Gogh and Gauguin knew each other well
and for a while the two artists had a
friendly relationship. However, at some point
a strained relationship arose between them.
They quarelled and their amity ended in violence.




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