A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...

Its title: Oviri, Tahitian for “savage.” Gauguin’s life was interesting enough without all the mythologizing. He was born Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin on June 7, 1848, in Paris to a political ...

A rather bold and adventurous artist from the post impressionist era was Paul Gauguin. His paintings are known for their life, the emotions they showed, the subject, and of course, his use of colours.

How did Vincent van Gogh really die? We’ve all heard of the tortured artist who took his own life before he had a chance to ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89.

A celebrated author and Nobel literature laureate with Syracuse University ties is dead at age 89. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima, Peru, on Sunday, while surrounded by his family, ...

Vargas Llosa said his early life was “somewhat traumatic,” pampered ... including French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin and his grandmother, Flora Tristan, in “The Way to Paradise ...

Vargas Llosa said his early life was “somewhat traumatic,” pampered ... including French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin and his grandmother, Flora Tristan, in “The Way to Paradise ...

Van Gogh’s life and work can serve as a dramatic illustration ... in anticipation at the prospect of the feted artist Paul Gauguin joining him in the South of France at a home that he hoped ...