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Paul Gauguin, Effect of Snow, 1879

He doesn't like impressionism. Isn’t poetic but is too romantic. He does not use scienctic theory. Likes Cezanne and bought art from him. Van gogh portrayed his own vision

Paul Gauguin, an interior at rue

Painter's Family in the Garden Paul Gauguin 1881

Paul Gauguin, The Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)1888

Most famous. Large scale. Subject Matter? Religous bible story. Theyre wearing tradionial clothes. Theres a priest. There isn’t people actually fighting its just them imagining the preachers words. The green at the top is the divison of reality. In person you focus on the women with her eyes opens. Shes the center its her prayer and mystical feeling. Gauguin isn’t religious.

Paul Gauguin The Yellow Christ 1889

No proper anatomy too academic. Connection between man and nature. Very common in religious countries. Illustration isn’t anything in front of him he’s combining elements of nature.

Paul Gauguin Self-Portraitwith Yellow Christ 1889

He put himself in the cross. Weirdo. Broke wife left him. Period. Spends alot of time with Van Gogh

Gauguin Merahi metua no Tehamana (Ancestors of Tehamana)1893

First wife. She was 13. Portrayed as a warrior. Fan is a symbol of nobility in tajiti. No represetation of gods. The mongal transition to spirtuality. Mango represents that she’s pregnant. Image of powerful women you can put her in a colonal dress but she has knowledge.

gauguin nevermore 1887

The patterns are found in Japanse art. She listening to the people in the background. Shows realistic body shows her muscles. A positive body image

Gauguin Where Do We Come From?1897

Various ages don't mind mixed styles. Indu Statue no divinity. The women dressed are the western influence hence why they are in the shadow and background Flat dry matt. Break from reality. Looks like wallpaper references Cezaane but denies it. Don't look through the window. Poem or portrait

gauguin barbarian tales 1902

Foreground Figures: Features Tohotaua, a young Tahitian woman with striking red-orange hair kneeling on the grass, alongside a second Polynesian figure sitting in a meditative or Buddhist pose.

Background Figure: A floating, diabolic-looking, red-bearded figure with green eyes peers from the upper right, representing Jacob Meyer de Haan, a deceased Dutch painter friend of Gauguin from their time in Brittany.

Left Edge: A young man who also served as a model for Marquisian à la cape rouge.

Maurice de Vlaminck, Restaurant de la Machine à Bougival, 1905

Derain, Port of Collioure, the White Horse, 1905

Derain attempt at divionism. He makes suggests with his strokes. Use negative space to portray the horse.

Derain, Mountains at Collioure, 1905

No good shading. Vibrant color pallete.

Gaugin Self-portrait 1893

Maurice de VlaminckPortrait of Derain1905

Becoming primitive Forgetting everythingPaint like a child… Paint badly. No undercoats, thick strokes, nothing is finished, the composition

André Derain Henri Matisse1905

Used the canvas color as shadows. Outlined pipe. Cool color creates dimension. Not a good example of childish painted.

Henri MatisseAndré Derain1905

Betrays his philosphy. Use complentmary colors. direction of strokes shows speed and energy

MatissePortrait of Ms Matisse, The Green Stripe1905

Color shading. Blue outline isn’t respected. Intense contrast. No message or emotion. Geometric Combination. Mixing color.

Derain Woman in a Chemise1906

Wacky hand perspective no anatomy. Geometric form. Made a “mistake” to further his point that perfection isn’t the goal. color for color’s sake

Mask Fang, Gabon 1905

Took interest in African art to do someone knew.

Derain, The Dance, 1906

Large scale. Contrast, fluid, no shadows. Subject matter? Ritualistic dance. Porportions and features are african. Used divisionism in the background.

Derain, The Bathers, 1908

Muted palette.

Picasso, Les demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

Organic form. Angular with blue sketch underpainting. When I first went to the old Trocadero […] The masks weren't just like any other pieces of sculpture. Not at all. They were magic things [...] I too believe that everything is unknown […] I understood what the Negroes use their sculptures for […] Les Demoiselles d'Avignonmust have come to me that very day…”

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in his studio, 1911

She has short hair not normal for time period. She’s sitting improperly. Sitting close to a man that isn’t her husband. His sculptures are inspired by african art.

Ernst Ludwig KirchnerSelf-Portrait with Model1910

Most famous work. He only has a robe on. The lady is in her undies. S3xual power with creativity. The brush by his waist. He’s free not following the rules of life. More personal meaning.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Girl Under a Japanese Umbrella1909

He’s looking over her. Using sexuality for domination. Green eyeshadow isn’t normal.

Emil Nolde Candle Dancers 1912

Ritual Dance. Fire. The foot is implied. Cropped painted.

Emil Nolde, Still Life with Masks, 1911

Tribal mask. Primitive work. They’re inspired by other mask. Not orignal. Layering.

Emile Nolde South Seas Landscape 1914-15

Pre-modern, pre-christian idea. His work was burned and destroyed.