Paul Gauguin

Who is your favorite artist? For me, it is Paul Gauguin. Especially his creation of the Tahitian group of paintings was amazing. By researching, I will simply talk about Gauguin and the Tahitian paintings. After, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate the group of Tahitian paintings with the most representable one - “Tahitian Woman on the Beach”. Paul Gauguin, a French Post-Impressionist artist, was an important figure in Symbolist art movement of the early 1900s. He was recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetic style that were well-known to be different from Impressionism. Also, “His use of bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts in his paintings set him apart from his contemporaries, helping to pave the way for the Primitivism art movement. Gauguin often sought exotic environments, and spent time living and painting in Tahiti.” (Biography.com) The Tahitian group paintings are in a same style of coloring, drawing target, and feeling. First of all, coloring is a huge similarity. Those paintings mostly use with rich colors. Gauguin always use with sharp colors, such as red, orange, green, blue etc. Secondly, he mostly draw the Tahitian in the group of paintings, especially women, children. Random and daily moments are the most occurred scene, also there are some landscapes too. Thirdly, the other similar place is the overall mood of the pieces. They convey the feelings of joyful, and reflect relaxation and happiness in Tahiti. Focusing on the “Tahitian Women on the Beach”, there are two female in the painting. They are sitting on beach, the right one is looking towards the right side and holding a bunch of grass, the left one is closing her eyes. For coloring, the girls are both wearing sharp color clothes, red, white, and pink. Also, they both have hair bows on their head, yellow and red. For analyzing, the texture of the ground is rough, the color layers and drawing tecqnics convey the texture. Also,