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Today we’re discussing Paul Gauguin, a figure of great importance to the development of modern art whose personal life causes no end of controversy today. Despite this controversy Gauguin is still something of a legendary figure in art history, owing to the qualities of his work and his own ruthless self promotion. The critic Robert Hughes noted that Gauguin at various times in his career positioned himself as a hero, a martyr, a magus, a savage and a criminal. He is part brute and part escape artist, the Houdini of the Avant Garde. Pinning down this complex self aggrandizing controversial figure is rather difficult, but today were going to try and do just that.
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You did a fabuoous job on that video! I understand it was hard to write, but you got a lot of things that I haven't heard before – and I've studied a lot of Gauguin. Interesting about the Pizarro quote at the end that, Gauguin is "always poaching on someone else's land."
I've been binging your content since it was just recomended to me-so I realize you might not see this comment on an older video. Your content is fabulous and I appreciate you bringing history to people like myself that want to learn but can't afford to go back to school. I appreciate further your inclusion of the conflicting impact of artists like Gauguin. It is…chilling to think of my ancestors painted and used and discarded like this. A lot of art history documentaries often gloss over the colonist implications because of their significance. Thank you.
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Cracking up at the Allais piece!!!!
Gauguin’s subjects resemble the club med crowd!? Not sure about that..
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Beautiful art work
His depictions of the natives are noble and pure. Nothing degrading
Sorry but I chastise you for saying he was struggling with madness which supports the myth he was crazy – he was struggling with psychiatric illness – also
Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith posit that he didn't commit suicide – the evidence of which is compelling…
"Jimmy saville of the south seas"
Lolz. As an american, my really only understand of him is from a louis theroux documentary i watched back in 2010.
Id gauguin's obsession with primitivism akin to J.J. Rousseau's romanticism of the noble savage?
The sjw's wanna take him from gauguin to go! Gone!
Obviously one of my favourite artists.
Being 70, learning, understanding, observation, experience and re-examination 247 365.
My recent sentiments are the constant in my replies.
To add, can you please direct me to or even reply to this request.
A list of all your documentaries and the up and coming.
I have left this second message on another one of your works.
The request is this. Throughout all art genres and their far from settled historical information, there are well observed political subtitles therein most commonly seen only by the intelligencia of the period. Dissenters of their times still persist in all art genres with the establishment of the day still playing the same shenanigans.
Does this obvious conduit merit more research? In my 7 decades worth of opinion, the evidence has festered far too long.
Maybe too big for the stoned on YouTube generation to encompass and think. As Hannah Arendt wrote, regarding the art or act of 'Thinking', the ability to think and act upon that thought in err or triumph, is a sentient being human.
My own adjunct to this is that independent thought is always present, inside and outside a collective consensus or dogma, most commonly described as 'settled'.
I'm rambling on but, you seem like a decent chap.
R.S.V.P. when settled…….a very small joke.
Love always
I do believe an essay about would very much fit into your video discography
Very interesting point of view on such unusual figure!!! Thank you so much !
A complicated man
Fascinating presentation! Love it to the very end!!!
A bit of an off topic question, I heard a lot that ankles were considered sexual in the 1800s. My question is how when people bathed naked, swam naked and saw naked people in paintings a lot?
He painted by numbers. How boring is that
He was a greedy pervert and his interpretation of art was not impressionistic at all . Greedy joker. He shagged all his mates wives.
I completely disagree on your moralistic conclusions on Gauguin's life as well as the unfounded assumption that his work has made the life and the memory of the natives worse. In fact, this last critique shows that you don't really know the life of Gauguin. He actively fought for the rights of the native, opposing the colonial powers with both this artistic work and by politically criticizing the French authorities as a journalist, a thing that even caused him to be jailed. Your conclusions are therefore one-sided and unfair.
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yo u saved me on my art history essay but fuck this whole dude dafuq😩
Love the art, hate the artist…
Excellent video! Thanks!
I think Vincent was in love with Paul. Of course, a relationship doomed to failure as Paul wasn’t gay. Vincent’s sexuality is bit more difficult to pin down as is evident in his letters to Theo. I doubt it would have worked out even if Paul had been gay. Painters who are “married to their work” can be difficult to live with.
Brilliant, thank you.
I think it's something of a stretch to blame Gauguin for the whole Club-Med-ifization of the South Pacific ….
Well technically his wife Mette and her Copenhagen family kicked him out. Granted, his singular and perhaps selfish pursuing of an uncompromising bohemian artist's life had everything to do with their decision to tell him to bugger off.
Thank you very much
"La maison du jour " translates in "the house of the day" as in the house for today
The Angel was giving Jacob a noogy.
Pissarro manages to find a small space for himself in the life of every major impressionist. I am sure he would have been a better friend and mentor to Van gough than Gauguin, had he met him.
Thank you for this eye opener.. I kind of remembered Gauguin.. but never learn't this at school! keep it up! 'Tanks!