Paul Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin

• French
• Post Impressionist
• Painter

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Paul Gauguin1849 - 1903
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Gauguins Early Impressionism
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Influential Friendships
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Post Impressionism
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Gauguins Time in Brittany
Vision after the Sermon - 1888
Christ - 1889
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Breton Girls
Breton Fishermen
Breton Peasant Women
Breton Landscape
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The Tahiti Years
La Orana Maria (1891)
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going? (1898)
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Woodcuts
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Life is merely a fraction of a second.An
infinitely small amount of time to fulfillour
desires, our dreams, our passions.Paul Gauguin
Blue Roofs Rouen (1888)
Nature morte à "L'Espérance" (1901)
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Project

• Materials
• 1 piece of Scratch Foam
• Pencil
• Paper
• Paperless Crayon
• Project
• 1. Use a pencil to lightly draw a design onto
  the Scratch Foam
• (Consider trying a Gauguin inspired
  landscape)
• When youve sketched your design, use your pencil
  tip to etch the design into the Foam.
• 3. Place a piece of paper on top of the etching
  and rub a paperless crayon over the paper.
• 4. Watch your design reveal itself!
• Try using different more than one color to
  suit your design, or use unusual colors in the
  style of Gauguin.