Paul Gauguin

Caught In A Bad Romance

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.12.2012

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When Edvard Munch created "The Scream" in 1893, it became a symbol for modern anxiety. Munch's pale-faced protagonist is in agony, while the blood-red...

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Katharina Wulff's Whimsical Daydreams

Posted 05.08.2012

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Katharina Wulff's paintings are as mysterious in their subject matter as they are in their varied influences. Her visual stories display mysterious ch...

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Gauguin Exhibition Strikes Controversy

Posted 02.21.2012

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Almost as legendary as Paul Gauguin's colorful depictions of Tahitian utopia is the colorful story of how he got there and what he did once in the tro...

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Beyond Bora Bora

Mark Sissons | Posted 01.31.2012

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On islands like Huahine, Raiatea, Taha'a and the atoll of Rangiroa, the sparkling turquoise lagoon waters are even less paddled and the lush scenery virtually unspoiled.

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SLIDESHOW: Artists Gone Wild

Posted 11.20.2011

Artists are often eccentric; that's part of their appeal. But there's a fine line between eccentricity and hide-your-kids lunacy, and the artists in t...

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Jersey City Museum of Russian Art (MoRA) is Worth Crossing the Hudson

Lia Petridis Maiello | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Museum of Russian Art, Paul Gauguin, Joan Miro, Soviet Nonconformist Art, Wassily Kandinsky, Jersey City, Arts News

The Museum of Russian Art (MORA) is exhibiting two contemporary Russian/Eastern European artists right now that are taking the viewer on a stunning travel to strangely familiar places.

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WATCH: 500 Years Of Artists Paint Women

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Edouard Manet, Kazimir Malevich, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Philip Scott Johnson, Rene Magritte, Gustav Klimt, Anders Zorn, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Morphing, Animation, Henri Matisse, Arts News

New to us at HuffPost Arts, Philip Scott Johnson's "500 Years Of Female Portraits In Western Art" is intriguing in its ability to trace how representa...

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2011's Top 10 Moments In Art, So Far

The Huffington Post | Analise Roland | Posted 09.17.2011

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Since we've made it halfway through 2011, we thought we'd take a look back at the art moments that have defined this year so far. From the defacing of...

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We Bet You Don't Know These 10 Odd Facts About Famous Artists

Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Vegetarian, Salvador Dali, Auguste Rodin, Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance, Paul Gauguin, UK Arts, Henri Matisse, Monet, Video, Art, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Slideshow, Peter Paul Rubens, Damien Hirst, Slidepollajax, Arts News

You might think that since the artists included in the slideshow below are famous, you know everything about them (and perhaps some of you do). But we...

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Guess The Artist

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, Toulouse-Lautrec, Post-Impressionism, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Post Impressionism, Painting, Paul Cezanne, Postimpressionism, French Painting, Nineteenth Century, Arts News

One of the most prominent Post-Impressionist painters, this nineteenth-century artist is best known for his lurid color palette and provocative subjec...

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On June 7, 1848 Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris France. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement and his bold experiments with...

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Paris in the Time of the Impressionists

David Galenson | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Impressionists, Arts News

In an essay written in the 1930s, the poet Paul Valéry reflected on an extraordinary era: Degas plus Renoir; Monet plus Cézanne; and in the same way...

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Woman Attacks 'Evil' Painting

AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 06.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A woman accused of pounding on a painting by Paul Gauguin and trying to rip it from a wall at the National Gallery of Art told police th...

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Gauguin Painting Attacked

The Washington Post | Timothy R. Smith and and Martin Weil, Sunday, April 3, 10:07 PM | Posted 06.03.2011

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A painting at the Gauguin exhibit in the National Gallery was attacked last week by a gallery visitor, a rare and unusual incident that provoked consi...

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Arts Swimsuit Edition 2011 | Picasso, Seurat, Gauguin

Posted 05.25.2011

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Unless you've been living under a rock without internet access (and surely dear HuffPost reader, this wouldn't apply to you), you've heard of the rele...

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The Ten Best Love Poems Ever Written In Honor Of Valentine's Day 2011

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011

Mindful of Paul Valery's painfully true contention that "Love is being stupid together," how about ten poems and ten paintings that celebrate the art of being stupid together? Come on, just this once.

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Suffocating in San Francisco With Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and a Thousand Tourists

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michel Foucault, Art, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Musee D'Orsay, Museums, Seraut, Paul Gauguin, Painting, San Francisco-California, Arts News

No matter how great these "Post-Impressionist Masterpieces" are, they are crammed in a basement overfilled with way too many sleepwalking European tourists.

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Paradise & Little Vigils: Conversations with Judy Collins and That Guy Mark Erelli

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Johnson, Greg Allman, Tom Paxton, Little Milton, Jim Chastain, Chrissie Hyde, Pat Robertson, Joan Baez, Dolly Parton, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Judy Collins, Paul Yarrow, Stephen Stills, David Buskin, Kenny White, Dan Fogelberg, Al Cooper, Peter Paul & Mary, The Rolling Stones, Elektra Records, Bill Clinton, Mimi FariñA, Chelsea Clinton, David Batteau, The Blues Project, Tim Weissberg, Crosby Stills & Nash, Galileo, Zack Hickman, Amy Speace, Paul Gauguin, Bob Dylan, Jesse Valenzuela, Gin Blossoms, The Mamas & the Papas, The Grateful Dead, Leonard Cohen, The Allman Brothers, Charles Darwin, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, John Denver, Jackson Browne, Billboard, Joni Mitchell, Hillary Clinton, Glenn Beck, Rufus Wainwright, Beradette Peters, Chris Smither, Buddy Miller, Jimmy Webb, 9/11, Entertainment News

Collins discusses her new album, which includes a song about 9/11 and a duet recorded with Joan Baez, and what it's like to have the President of the United States name his child after your record.

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Paul Gauguin, In Search of the Primitive: Jacques Jouet's Savage

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Primitivism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Postmodern Fiction, Manet, Experimental Fiction, Imperialism, Colonization, Dalkey Archive Press, Jacques Jouet, Civilization, Paul Gauguin, Books News

Savage is highly successful, morally anchored experimental fiction. Jouet provokes fundamental rethinking of the permanent questions about the West's relation to its "savage" other.

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The Danger of a Single Story

Yazmany Arboleda | Posted 05.25.2011

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The outcome of a single story can be that it flattens our understanding of art and of each other in a now globalized world.

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