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This 5 page report discusses Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) painting titled “Spirit of the Dead Watching” (Manao tupapau). Created in 1892, the painting is immediately recognizable as one of his because of its unique rhythmic line and tropical colors. He also shows his interest in South Seas’ culture, myth, spirituality, and the concept of life and death as perceived by others outside of the 19th century European consciousness. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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later works of art. It includes his unique rhythmic line and tropical colors that are generally associated with the influences of Tahiti and the Marquesa Islands where he spent the
last decade of his life. Any study of Gauguin and his works requires that the student understand that the artists had been the most apparently mainstream of the respectable bourgeois
French. He was a stockbroker, married, the father of five children but at the age of 35, he met the Impressionist painter, Camille Pissarro. After that, he veered away from
the business world to become an amateur and self-taught artist and avid art collector. As Gauguin grew in his own skill as an artist, he began to exhibit with
his Impressionist friends even though he ultimately condemned Impressionism as "superficial and affected" (Eug?ne Henri Paul Gauguin Biography). He developed a genuinely cynical pessimism regarding "civilized" man that pervaded most
of his attitudes and sent him in pursuit of paradise for the rest of his life (Eug?ne Henri Paul Gauguin Biography). "Like his sometime friend and idol, van Gogh, ...
he lived in poverty and isolation and painted with little commercial success or acclaim" (Eug?ne Henri Paul Gauguin Biography). "Spirit of the Dead Watching" Despite the fact that he
painted numerous tropical scenes and used the colors of the jungles and oceans of the South Pacific, Gauguin did not necessarily "borrow" from the art he encountered there. Instead, he
was influenced by far more structured but non-Western art forms such as that found in some medieval art and Japanese art. Perl (1988) made a valuable observation upon the opening
of the Gauguin retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s when he wrote: "Gauguin is the first of a breed; he takes his
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