Gauguin – The Other World
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Paul Gauguin: a life of adventure, controversy and creation
Gauguin: The Other World captures the astonishing life of a man who was by turns a globetrotting sailor, a brilliant stockbroker and an outcast painter. Fabrizio Dori paints a balanced and absorbing portrait of a fearless artist and flawed human being whose all-consuming passion – for art, for women and for himself – destroyed everything in its path. Gauguin’s primitivist paintings won him few admirers in his own lifetime, but his radical break from Impressionism would pave the way for a new generation of artists, among them Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Henri Matisse.
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Dori pays tribute to the life and work of Gauguin without diminishing the artist's sometimes unsympathetic character in this fabulously illustrated work. Dori concentrates on Gauguin's life in the "other world" of Polynesia, where he created his most memorable paintings and eventually died, while also sketching his life away from Tahiti. Interwoven with the more realistic biography are flashes of Gauguin traveling into the mythological world of Tahiti, in mountaintop dreams and nighttime travels with a figure of death. Dori's images range from the lush palette of the tropics to the more pallid colors of France, mixing panels with a texture like oil paintings for Gauguin's waking life with etchings in shades of brown and black for the gods and spirits. Dori's Gauguin is a man driven by his art, "the tyrant living inside," with little love for those around him. A few final pages by art writer C line Delavaux add context to this marvelous portrait.
