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...extreme he would go to was Tahiti, where, while looking for paths beyond the exhausted conventions of Western art, he would make some of its greatest works. "Gauguin Tahiti," which opens this week at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts after a hugely successful run at the Grand Palais in Paris, is one of the largest exhibitions ever mounted of those wild, influential canvases and carvings. Beautifully organized by George T.M. Shackelford of the Boston MFA and Claire Freches-Thory of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, it reaches a wide-screen crescendo with the Boston MFA's great canvas...
...reception in this century has been very different. Is there any tale in modern art quite like that of his flight to the South Seas? More than a century after his death in 1903--at 54, from syphilis, nearly alone in the Marquesas, the islands where he fled when Tahiti proved too spoiled--his self-imposed exile still serves as the last word in escape fantasies. Tahiti was the place where he hoped to find a native culture in tune with his most uncivilized impulses and where he could discharge energies, artistic, spiritual and phallic, that bow-tied Europe wanted...
When Gauguin decided, at 35, to give himself over full time to his art, he did it with a passion. He abandoned his job as a stockbroker and deposited his Danish wife Mette and their five children back in Copenhagen, never to see them again. Tahiti would break his heart, of course. What he knew of the island was built mostly out of visits to the Paris World's Fair and from the romantic fabrications of the novelist Pierre Loti. By the time Gauguin made the first of his two voyages, in 1891, the native culture he hoped to find...
...round off a blockbuster fall art season in Paris. The lineup includes Botticelli at the Musée du Luxembourg, Bazille at the Musée Marmottan Monet, and a huge Jean Cocteau retrospective at the Pompidou Center. With over 200 paintings, drawings, woodcuts, sculptures, photographs and sketches, Gauguin-Tahiti, the Atelier of the Tropics (Oct. 3-Jan. 19) offers brilliant confirmation of Gauguin's primary role in the liberation of color in modern art. From his first 1891-93 voyage alone, the show brings together 15 major works now scattered around the world, including Woman With a Mango from...
...that enlightenment was more fulfilling than art. He picked up the brush again only when the then French embassy cultural attach? Michel Deverge threatened to end their friendship if he didn't. In 1978, Deverge helped Tan organize a successful exhibition of his works at the Gauguin Museum in Tahiti, and Tan has never looked back. Since then, his success has translated into financial security as his larger pieces, such as the Song of Sutra, now sell at auctions for as much...