ARTH 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Pierre Puvis De Chavannes, Paul Gauguin, What Is Life
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Gauguin, bernand and friends exhibited crude prints at caf volpini, zincographs. Many portrayed britainy; beastialized labour, non-romanticization of peasantry work similarly in gauguin(cid:495)s painting language. Women, victimized; mapping representation of breton onto body of women. Gauguin, like courbet, not invited to exhibit at world fair. Breton peasants almost equalized with (cid:494)simple races(cid:495) eg. javanese. What are we/ where are we going/, 1897. Puvis de chavannes, the sacred grove, beloved of the arts and muses, 1884. Holding up alternative of cultural history to draw on. Borrows particular objects to use in his work eg. peruvian mummy, buddhist temple of borobadur. So his encounter with peruvian mummy fascinated him. Garden of eden reference, quest of humankind for knowledge, birth to death, reading from right to left, adam-like figure picking fruits. One of the early works after gauguin arrived in tahiti. Rejection of western painting perspective, exotic colour system. When sends these paintings back, competing with modernity representations of marginalized population.
