Paul GauguinPaul GauguinBetween Pont-Aven (in Brittany, where he first settled in 1886) and the South seas, Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) sought to develop a radical synthetist and symbolist vision that would change the face of modern art.
Yet as the tormented "savage" he soon became an archetype of the malediction of creative genius.
His original woodcuts, which he carved (and often printed) himself, constitute a veritable revolution in the history of printmaking, foreshadowing the fauvist predilection for this means of expression, with no real prior equivalents.
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Misères HumainesHuman MiseriesMongan, Kornfeld, & Joachim 49 woodcut, 1898-99, only known state Among his last prints, this striking motif of contemplative despondency haunted the artist in the late years of his life.
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