Three Tahitians, 1898, Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland
Gauguin writes that he is the classic beauty of the human figure in the element virginity of the nature of the South Seas , to let him find his colors and forms. Fascinated by the placidity, movements, expressive gestures and the lives of these men found "prosperity, faith, nature against dryness, tightness, artificiality" (Noa-Noa). He sees the bodies of the color of bronze bathed by golden light, and tries to fix the expression of their large, simple gestures and movements. In this and other paintings that represent the people of Tahiti, is revealed to him a silent music, the sound of the few, strong colors. A large, serene peace emanates from the look and the hands holding flowers and fruits, exotic romance is more than what Gauguin fails to grasp here. The charm of primitive humanity receives, through his artistic figure, "once again, before it finally disappears from the world."
Gauguin in the early paintings of the South Sea, is overwhelmed by the richness of forms and exuberant colors of this nature in the most mature works, as reproduced in this, the whole atmosphere is grasped and expressed only by move chromaticity of the background: a yellow gold and absolute hot, legendary deep, slightly touched by a violet veil, on which the figures appear beautiful by contrast, sculptures and monuments. (Claudio Di Scalzo)
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The painting, oil painting on canvas, before arriving at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh belonged to the collection of Madame d'Andoque. Sometimes it is presented in the catalog under the title "The Conversation" or as "Conversation in Tahiti." (Cds)
life of Gauguin
Born in 1848 in Paris, Gauguin, after years of entering school in the Navy, and after several trips abroad remains for 12 years, well-paid clerk in a bank. They are serene years, lived together with his wife, Danish, and five children. Then, in 1883, exploded a passion for painting, which reveals his great talent, but destroying our heritage and family. The new problems surface, simple shapes, strong colors and whole, put it at the outset in a position of conflict with the Impressionists. In Britain the first born of these works that try to solve the problem of surface and color (see images attached in the "Yellow Christ"). In Panama and the island of Martinique, he finds even more colors that match his imagination, an elementary nature, that excited him, and perhaps rise again in his impressions of childhood, when, with his mother and siblings, lived in Peru from the third the seventh year of life. The imperious temper his aggression issues in art led him to conflict with friends, until tragedy with Van Gogh in Arles in the fall of 1888. In the spring of that year he made his artistic credo, a successful sale of his paintings offered him in 1891, the possibility of starting a life completely different regions of the South Seas. After some initial disappointment, he is what really had always sought beauty, unspoiled nature, purity of being. He painted until all its resources and all his forces back, after a break in Paris (a legacy, it receives in those years, is soon consumed, the pictures do not have the expected success) is again in the islands of the South Seas, writes (Noa-Noa) and picturing life and myth created, until his death in 1903, sculptures and drawings, in the midst of great spiritual and material difficulties, which still knows real rip masterpieces.
Claudio Di Scalzo discalzo@alice.it
NEWS ON THE MANUAL OF SCHOOL TELLUS CLAUDIO to unseat
I inserted in the electronic journal that I founded and directed TELLUSfolio (2005-2009) MANUAL TELLUS (which incorporates the name and head of the magazine / yearbook Marco Di Claudio Baldino-Scalzo, 1990-2009), textbook for two years and three years of high school, with the section are executed laboratory where teaching units, courses for the exams , papers. TELLUSmostre In parallel section, always in the same paper, I included links to "ART and school "and also this visual manual will be re-released and expanded on TELLUS MANUAL / HANDBOOK OF CLASS. Recent developments in the online manuals confirm the news of my intuition six years ago! MANUAL The TELLUS is re-published in this weblog as the present, currently on TELLUSFOLIO has been distorted and taken online against my will as an author and lecturer by Editrice Labos-Cooperative Labos Morbegno. Claudio Di Scalzo discalzo@alice.it
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