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For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes ...
In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...
Vincent van Gogh is one of the most celebrated and influential artists in history. Known for his expressive use of color, ...
They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous and influential painters in the history of art. Why did sunflowers ...
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Mallen, E. (2025) Pablo Picasso’s 1906-1907 Transformation: from the “Primitive” to the “Rational”. Advances in Historical ...
Sue Prideaux’s latest biography paints a vivid portrait of Paul Gauguin, the towering artist whose bright colors, flat planes, symbolism, and naked, dark-skinned Polynesian women paved the way ...
If the Gauguin who emerges here is not easy to love, he does seem of a piece with the willfully contradictory, persistently gripping art he left behind. The biographical facts are improbably ...
According to naval records, Paul Gauguin ’s eyes were brown. In early self-portraits, the French artist painted himself with a crooked nose, and he scrawled a signature and date in the corners.
T he first time Paul Gauguin was canceled, his last breath had scarcely left his body. The Paris-born painter, writer, ceramicist, sculptor, and art world enfant terrible had gone blind.
After examining the French artist Paul Gauguin ’s The Little Cat with X-ray imaging, experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam are unraveling the painting’s secrets—including a hidden beetle.
Framing Art History’s Most Famous Friendships—and Fallouts Museums and galleries are increasingly highlighting the great collaborations and rivalries behind the world’s best-loved masterpieces.