Paul Gauguin - Paintings in Tahiti

Inspired by the writings of Pierre Loti, and after his short artistic adventure with Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin arrives in Tahiti in 1891, having obtained is official entry by the French government. He came to Tahiti to try to make his mind and his work on the same level: in French « là je pourrai, au silence des belles nuits tropicales, écouter la douce musique murmurant les mouvements de mon cœur » translation - “there I will be able, with the silence of the beautiful tropical nights, to listen to soft music murmuring the movements of my heart”. Gauguin created his most famous paintings – primitive, exotic, aggressive, using abstract patterns and strong colors to depict native figures and landscapes. Paul Gauguin Gauguin created his most famous paintings – primitive, exotic, aggressive, using abstract patterns and strong colors to depict native figures and landscapes. Gauguin is a marginal who confuses reality and literature, myth and history and which flees its contemporary the sources of the primitive art and of sacred among the Maori. His way of living and thinking dedicates him to become a legend in the painting world, a living legend that will stay besides him along his life, and which will become bigger after its death.