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The Paul Gauguin Museum (French: Musée Paul Gauguin) is a Japanese-styled art museum dedicated to the life and works of Paul Gauguin in Tahiti, French Polynesia. The Museum is closed for renovations - but the sister museum in Hiva Oa is open.
In October of 1888, Gauguin left Brittany for Arles, where he joined Vincent van Gogh, whose brother Theo was his art dealer. Gauguin encouraged Van Gogh to paint as he himself did, from memory and imagination (22.82.2[10]), rather than from motifs in nature.
Along with his contemporaries Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin was a pioneer of modernist art. His use of expressive colors, flat planes, and simplified, distorted forms in paintings, as well as a rough, semi-abstract aesthetic in sculptures and woodcuts, exerted a profound influence on avant-garde artists in the early 20th ...
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Built in 1964, by Father Patrick O'Reilly with the participation of the Singer-Polignac Foundation, the Gauguin museum is situated close to Mataiea on the west coast of Tahiti Nui. It was here that famoius artist lived during his first stay in Polynesia in 1891.
- Papeari, 98727, Tahiti
- 40 47 62 00
Biography. Paul Gauguin's (1848–1903) famous image as the original Western “savage” was his own embellishment upon reality. That persona was, for him, the modern manifestation of the "natural man" constructed by his idol, the philosopher and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778).
Anonymous, Relief from Temple of Borobudur, Java (Top register: The Assault of Mara; bottom register: Scene from the Bhallatiya-Jakata), albumen photograph, 9 ½ x 11 3/8 in. (24.1 x 28.9 cm), formerly in the collection of Paul Gauguin (Musée de Tahiti et des îles/Te Fare Manaha, Tahiti)
