Paul Gauguin A collection of paintings

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Paul Gauguin as a French post-Impressionist

artist. Unappreciated until after his death,

Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental

use of color and Synthetist style that were

distinctly different from Impressionism.

Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years

in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings

from this time depict people or landscapes from

that region.

His work was influential to the French

avant-garde and many modern artists, such as

Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin's art

became popular after his death, partially from the

efforts of art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who

organized exhibitions of his work late in his

career and assisted in organizing two important

posthumous exhibitions in Paris.Gauguin was an

important figure in the Symbolist movement as

a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and

writer. His expression of the inherent meaning

of the subjects in his paintings, under the

influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way

to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He

was also an influential proponent of wood

engraving and woodcuts as art forms.