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VISUALS | Gauguin Tahiti...
This exhibition features the paintings that Paul Gauguin produced between his departure for Tahiti in 1891 and his death in the Marquesa Islands in 1903 are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The canvasses are among Gauguin’s most mysterious, colorful and exotic. The exhibition’s Boston stop will be its only showing in the US, so be sure to see it while you can. “Gauguin Tahiti” runs through June 20 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston...
VISUALS | Gauguin Tahiti...
...paintings that Paul Gauguin produced between his departure for Tahiti in 1891 and his death in the Marquesa Islands in 1903 are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The canvasses are among Gauguin’s most mysterious, colorful and exotic. The exhibition’s Boston stop will be its only showing in the U.S., so be sure to see it while you can. “Gauguin Tahiti” runs through June...
...same, it was in Tahiti that Gauguin would make the work that opened the way for a later generation of artists to draw connections between "primitive" culture and the most advanced artistic practices. Picasso's road to the radical distortions of Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon was illuminated by the fires of Gauguin's Tahitian nudes. And for that matter, what is the work of Matthew Barney--all those willfully obscure films drawn from a personal cosmology--if not an update of Gauguin's enigmatic myths...