HISTART 180C Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Paul Gauguin, Les Nabis, Georges Seurat
15 Nov 2016
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History of art 180c lecture 20 symbolism in the 1890s. Final exam tip: know the key points that drove the crisis of impressionism. Gauguin"s primitivism can from an awareness of the other, both racial and sexual. Gauguin, la belle angele: he is interested in the coexistence/multiplicity of regional and exotic styles (first discovered in brittany, brings all sorts of stylistic differences together, looked for heterogeneity and difference. Where are we going?, 1898: fundamental truths can be discovered by asking about cultures that are not our own. Gauguin was obsessed with manet"s olympia to the point that he assisted in buying the painting for france and brought a postcard of olympia to tahiti. He originally worried that his paintings would be read as illicit, indecent, and shocking in paris. Sought to create a chaste picture of tahiti: no other intention than to do a nude the only conceivable mood is fear i had never seen her so lovely .
