Art History

Paul Gauguin was a french artist, known as a Post-Impressionists painter. He used vivid colors, thick application of paint, distinctive brushstrokes and real-life subject matter, but most Impressionists were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color. After spending a short period with Vincent van Gogh (1888), Gauguin increasingly abandoned imitative art for expressiveness through color. From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti and elsewhere in the South Pacific painting natives and scenery.

We painted a nature scene with hills, mountains, water, trees, cloud and sun. We used real-life subject matter from nature and painted it unatural colors or without restrictions, just as Gauguin did in the late 1800's.