Word: tahitian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...praise with which Paul Gaugin's painting, "Tahitian Idyll," has been received at the Fogg Museum this week well suggests the students' appreciation and endorsement of the service that the New York Museum of Modern Art is rendering to colleges through its circulation of one picture exhibitions...
Gaugin was the third and last artist in the present series of displays. The "Tahitian Idyll" admirably represents his style, largely developed during his life in the South Seas. The break with the Impressionistic influence of his early period, his indebtedness to Egyptian art, as well as his habits of composition are clearly represented in this work. Notwithstanding the influence that his technique has had, it was his greatest triumph to suggest that the function of art need not be to copy nature...
...Tahitian Idyl" by Gaugin, from the collection of A. Conger Goodyear, is the last of this year's series of One Picture Exhibitions circulated among colleges and universities by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the direction of the Museum's Extension Committee. It will remain at the Fogg Museum only from April...
...type of human from precisely traceable origins. In the ''Pitcairn Island Register" he found a record of births and deaths and he was able to obtain vital statistics concerning newcomers who joined the colony late in its history. There is a preponderance of European inheritance over the Tahitian and more occidental features are discernible than those of the South Sea native, but in appearance the islanders range through all gradations between European and Tahitian. No pure types of either remain and the statistical chance of such a "throwback'' is extremely remote. Dr. Shapiro prepared hereditary charts...
Although the islanders read English, Dr. Shapiro found the spoken tongue a mixture of degenerate English, Tahitian, and Pitcairn-coined words. He heard children say, "see ahse scauws zsegoin out da big ship" ("see the boats going out to the big ship"); and, "pfwat youall comee do diffy daffy?" ("why are you coming to do this and that?"). A few words, such as "tai-tai" (tasteless), are retained from the Tahitian although long since obsolete on Tahiti itself...