FAH245H1 Lecture Notes - Fatata Te Miti (By The Sea), Speech Balloon, Color Theory
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This is where gauguin begins, trys to emulate that style as a young painter at the time the style is popular. Gauguin, vision after the sermon: jacob wrestling with the angel (1888) Retreat away from the impressionist style begins quite early. In the foreground we see women wearing traditional costumes of the region and experiencing some kind of vision based upon a sermon a priest has just given. Do they see the battle between jacob and the angel? or is it instead something that they see in their minds? is it something experienced visually in reality or in the realm of thought and imagination. That vision is like a thought bubble of cartoons. Just a wooden cross-surrounded by women who venerate the religion. Gauguin finds strangeness in even the most traditional subjects. Goes to the french colony of tahiti is extremely disappointed when he arrives, sees that it has already been totally infiltrated by civilization.
