Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art

met another artist whose life was destined to have upon h

vettes Roses his first impression of Van Gogh, which proves beyond dispute that Gauguin loved Van Gogh and admired h

essence-was, in fact, realized from the beginning. The difference between them was that Van Gogh was an humble Dutch peasant, with the mystic blend of religion and animality which is common to F

itch of lyric ecstacy and to destroy the brain that had created it. For Gauguin the future held a long and stoic struggle

vitable quality of Greek tragedy. For the moment their meeting was without result, except that perhaps it woke Gauguin to a realization tha

urnful Brittany. The memories of his early initiation into the splendors of the tropics awoke in him

, although it left him for the time an invalid, threatened with dysentery, suffering f

ice, the blatant commercialism, the pedantic and Puritanic hypocrisy of our Occidental civilization. Like Gauguin, Hearn found in the West Indies a revelation of a world which had not lost touch with Nature-a world of men who were conte

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manner-the manner of a mystic poet who sees all life, the life of man, of vegetation, of the earth and the sea, as bei

ecked power of the sun, steadily sapping not only the white race, but also the race of mixed blood, with which he, l

o reconcile the glow and gloom of the tropics with Pissarro's analysis of paler northern sunlight. He brought back