Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin

"Where Practice We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"

"Where Practice We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" by Paul Gauguin depicts three major figure groups illustrating the questions posed in the title of this composition.

Gauguin felt strongly well-nigh this painting; he stated:

"I believe that this canvas non only surpasses all my preceding ones merely that I shall never do anything better—or fifty-fifty like information technology."

Staring with the group on the correct, the iii women with a kid represent the offset of life. The middle group symbolizes the daily existence of immature and adulthood.

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin

"Where Do Nosotros Come up From?

In the concluding group, on the left, co-ordinate to the artist:

"an old woman budgeted death appears reconciled and resigned to her thoughts."

At her feet, the white bird represents the uselessness of vain words. The blue idol in the groundwork represents what Gauguin described as "the Across."

Gauguin's post-impressionistic manner is defined past the vivid employ of colors and thick brushstrokes. It is impressionists with the focus on quick brushstrokes, only it aimed to convey an emotional vision.

Gauguin's inscription on the top left corner of the canvas gives the painting its title, but it has no question mark, no dash, and all words are capitalized. In the upper right, he signed and dated the painting: P. Gauguin / 1897.

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin

Where Are We Going?

Gauguin painted this canvass in Tahiti, where he went looking for a society more simple and more elemental than that of his native France. He left for Tahiti in 1891, and he painted several paintings that express his highly individualistic mythology.

Paul Gauguin was in despair when he undertook the painting, mourning his favorite girl's death earlier that year. He was oppressed by debts and had planned to impale himself on finishing this painting.

He subsequently made an unsuccessful effort with an overdose of arsenic.

Subsequently, Gauguin wrote a detailed description of the work concluding with the remark that:

"Seeing they see non, hearing they hear not."

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903) was a French mail-Impressionist creative person who was not appreciated until afterward his expiry.

Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and the Synthetist mode distinctly unlike from Impressionism.

He spent the last ten years of his life in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this fourth dimension draw people or landscapes from that region.

His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin's art became famous after his death.

Gauguin was an essential effigy in the Symbolist motion as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer.

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

  • Title:               Where Exercise We Come From? What Are We? Where Are Nosotros Going?
  • French:           D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?
  • Artist:             Paul Gauguin
  • Yr:               1897
  • Medium:        oil on sheet
  • Dimensions:   Elevation: 139.1 cm (54.7 in); Width: 374.vi cm (12.two ft)
  • Museum:        Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Paul Gauguin "Where Practice We Come up From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"

Paul Gauguin

  • Creative person:               Paul Gauguin
  • Birth Name:     Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
  • Built-in:                1848, Paris, France
  • Died:                1903 (aged 54), Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
  • Nationality:      French
  • Movement:      Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Primitivism
  • Notable works:
    • Vision later the Sermon
    • Where Practise Nosotros Come up From? What Are We? Where Are Nosotros Going?
    • Self Portraits by Paul Gauguin
      • Gauguin in front of his easel
      • Portrait of the Artist with the Xanthous Christ
    • Tahitian Women
      • The Dream – Courtauld Plant of Art
      • Not to piece of work – Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
      • Three Tahitians – Scottish National Gallery
      • Three Tahitian Women Against a Yellow Background – Hermitage Museum
      • And the Gilt of their Bodies – Musée d'Orsay
      • Barbaric Tales – Museum Folkwang
      • The Telephone call – Cleveland Museum of Art
      • The Siesta – Metropolitan Museum of Art
      • The Moon and the Earth – Museum of Modern Fine art
      • Hail Mary – Metropolitan Museum of Art
      • Two Tahitian Women With Mango Flowers – Metropolitan Museum of Fine art

Where do we come from? What are nosotros? Where are we going? – Paul Gauguin

A Virtual Tour of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • " Mrs. Fiske Warren and Her Girl Rachel" by John Singer Sargent
  • "Dance at Bougival" past Auguste Renoir
  • Relief of a Winged Genie
  • "The Fog Warning" by Winslow Homer
  • "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" by John Vocalizer Sargent
  • "Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair" by Paul Cézanne
  • "Entreatment to the Great Spirit" by Cyrus Edwin Dallin
  • "The Slave Send" past J. M. W. Turner
  • "Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny" by Claude Monet
  • "Discovery of Achilles on Skyros" past Nicolas Poussin
  • Odysseus and Polyphemus" by Arnold Böcklin
  • "The Creative person in his Studio" by Rembrandt
  • Where Do Nosotros Come up From? What Are Nosotros? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin

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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin

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"I shut my eyes to see."
– Paul Gauguin

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Photo Credit: Paul Gauguin [Public domain]; Miguel Hermoso Cuesta / CC By-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/four.0);

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