Paul Gauguin

Caught In A Bad Romance

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.12.2012

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...

Katharina Wulff's Whimsical Daydreams

Posted 05.08.2012

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

Gauguin Exhibition Strikes Controversy

Posted 02.21.2012

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...

Beyond Bora Bora

Mark Sissons | Posted 01.31.2012

Mark Sissons

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.

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...

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

Lia Petridis Maiello | Posted 11.20.2011

Lia Petridis Maiello

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.

WATCH: 500 Years Of Artists Paint Women

Posted 11.19.2011

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...

2011's Top 10 Moments In Art, So Far

The Huffington Post | Analise Roland | Posted 09.17.2011

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...

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

Posted 09.16.2011

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...

Guess The Artist

Posted 09.10.2011

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

Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin!

Posted 08.06.2011

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...

Paris in the Time of the Impressionists

David Galenson | Posted 07.31.2011

David Galenson

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...

Woman Attacks 'Evil' Painting

AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 06.04.2011

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...

Gauguin Painting Attacked

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

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...

Arts Swimsuit Edition 2011 | Picasso, Seurat, Gauguin

Posted 05.25.2011

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...

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

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011

James Scarborough

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.

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

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Mat Gleason

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

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

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Ragogna

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.

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

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Anis Shivani

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.

The Danger of a Single Story

Yazmany Arboleda | Posted 05.25.2011

Yazmany Arboleda

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