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This 4 page research paper discusses this work by Gauguin, placing it within the context of Gauguin's life and circumstances at the time. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), located in Berkeley, California. The painting shows social elements that reference two cultures, Brittany and Martinique, that both have significance
in Gauguins life (Calisphere). First of all, the pitcher sitting on the table is associated with the "small Breton village of Quimper" (Calisphere). Pottery production was a hallmark of
this village until 1983 (Calisphere). Sophisticated Parisians regarded this type of pottery as "rustic," and rather "inferior" when it was contrasted against the elegantly glazed earthenware that was factory produced
(Calisphere). However, from Gauguins perspective, art that was "na?ve or even primitive" was appealing to him (Calisphere). In 1887, Gauguin, on a trip to Martinique, painted "Dans les vagues"
(in the waves), which provides the image seen in the background (Calisphere). In this image, a woman can be seen, literally throwing herself into the ocean. The "waving arc of
her body mirror the Quimper pitcher"; therefore, her image is integral to the works "surface patterning," becoming as intrinsic to this aspect of the painting as the "pitcher or the
tablecloth" (Calisphere). Lucinda Barnes, in her article on the art collection at the BAM/PFA, relates that Gauguin left his "middle-class life and family in the French capital to join a
community of artists in a remove village in Brittany," which is where he "painted Still Life with Quimper Pitcher" in 1889 (Barnes). Interestingly, an online biography does not fully
agree with these details. This biography indicates that when Gauguin decided to "give up business and devote himself entirely to painting," which occurred at the age of 35 in 1883,
his wife took their five children with her and returned to her parents home, which was located in Copenhagen, Denmark ("Paul Gauguin"). Gauguin soon followed her, but rather than staying,
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