Word: tahitian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spectacular Gauguin show spreads Tahitian light...
...pieces by a man who worked at high pitch in oils, ceramics, prints and stone sculpture, to say nothing of wood carvings of a first-rate perversity. In Be in Love and You Will Be Happy, completed two years before he left France, but previewing what would be the Tahitian style, he carved a monstrous rendition of himself reaching toward a hesitant nude woman. A critic described it as "the deformed sculpture of a sadistic faun, whose kisses are slobbery and disgusting." You can see why he was tempted to leave France...
...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...
...Inspector of Ancient Monuments-the Pitt Rivers Museum houses tens of thousands of anthropological artifacts in an atmosphere redolent with Victorian eccentricity. Wildly cluttered display cases and fading labels, handwritten in copperplate script, speak of the period's voraciously eclectic mania for collecting. In one spot there's a Tahitian mourner's costume, acquired during Captain Cook's second voyage of 1773; in another there are displays of masks, like the one from Papua New Guinea, pictured left...
Wildly cluttered display cases and fading labels, handwritten in copperplate script, speak of the period's voraciously eclectic mania for collecting. In one spot there's a Tahitian mourner's costume, acquired during Captain Cook's second voyage of 1773; in another there are displays of masks, like the one from Papua New Guinea, pictured left...