{"id":1904,"date":"2015-05-09T18:35:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T16:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artblobs.com\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2023-07-05T02:20:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:20:48","slug":"paul-gauguin-larte-del-vivere-in-modo-felice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artblobs.com\/en\/2015\/05\/paul-gauguin-and-the-art-of-living-in-a-happy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Gauguin and the art of living in a happy way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Gauguin, cursed artist, misunderstood by society for his radical and non-conformist choices. A life marked by the constant need to escape from a world, the West, which he gets to know thanks to a comfortable bourgeois lifestyle that he experiences with his wife, family and property. His is a free spirit looking for a wild and primitive life that will take him away from modern civilization and will lead him to unknown and uncontaminated lands in contact with primitive art, a regenerative source for many artists. Art will then become an absolute center of force for his existence. The message that he is so determined to give to future generations is the entitlement to freedom in art, the \u201cright to dare everything\u201d<\/em> and the belief that the success of an artist does not depend on the consent of the public. The first contact with primitive culture that Gauguin has is when he was a child: his father, a journalist of Republican ideas, was forced to leave Paris for Peru because of his opposing ideas, where part of the family of his wife was. The memories of the Inca ceramics, which were of powerful expressive power and simplicity, leave their mark in the memory of little Paul. The artist will develop the desire to explore new lands when he is just 17 years old, when he decides to embark as a sailor in the merchant marine and for more than five years will travel around by sea. After this he will work for an exchange agency; the finance sector was booming and Gauguin will maintain a middle-class standard of living. He approaches art initially as a collector of Impressionist works, but begins to paint in his free time taking inspiration from the Impressionist style. The turning point comes when a major crisis across the stock exchange market forces brokers to reduce staff. Gauguin looses his job: what was initially perceived as a misfortune becomes the event that marks the path of the full expression of the spirit of the artist. Gauguin thought he could finance his life with painting but the crisis in the family relationships was forthcoming when Mette, his Danish wife, understands that he won\u2019t be able to ensure the same comfortable bourgeois lifestyle they have been enjoying up to that point.
\nThe family of his wife will ostracize him. As a result of this crisis, the artist decides to move to Pont Aven in Brittany, a country that had still retained the integrity of their tradition without having been infected by the myth of progress, individualism and by the ugliness of modern society. Here he works with the aim of finding the roots of humanity, reflecting people\u2019s identity in his canvases. The School of Pont Aven will be founded, of which also Emile Bernard was part.
\nIn this period one of his masterpieces was born \u201cVision after the Sermon\u201d<\/em>, manifesto of Symbolism. A way of painting without modeled and shadows, based on simplified forms and surrounded by a dark line filled with flat and anti-naturalistic fields of color was created, reminiscent of Japanese prints, known in France thanks to the Universal Exposition.<\/p>\n

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