| |
Call US Toll Free
1-866-782-0288
Email us
|
|
Featured Masterpiece
|
This month's featured oil painting is Gauguin's 'Day of the God'.
Paul Gauguin
was born in Paris
in 1848. His life as well as work has been seen as representing an all-out
rejection of western civilization. After staying and quarrelling with Van Gogh in
Arles, Gauguin made his
first journey to Tahiti in 1891 returning in
1894 and dying there in 1904.
He painted Day
of the God on his return to Tahiti in
1894. The painting derives its theme from Gauguins study of Polynesian
mythology. The main figure is Taaroa, the central figure of the Maori pantheon,
the creator of the world. In his honor gifts are being brought by two maidens
on the left, while on the right two girls perform a ritual dance. The three
naked figures in the foreground seem to suggest creation, especially the
embryonic curl of the figure on the right
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Top 20 Artists
