Noah Noah. Gauguin P.

The outstanding French pre-impressionist, the Prophet of the new principles of compositional construction, the initiator of “neoarchism”-such characteristics today accompany the name of the Gauguin field. But for his time, he was a cultural savage, whose paintings with their cult of naivety expressed the spiritual decline of art. From a young age, who was burdened by the bourgeois well -being, Gauguin was yearning for the promised land, in search of which he rushed to the unexplored places of the New World. Here, on the distant islands of Polynesia, he embodied the dream of earthly paradise in colorful and distinctive canvases and graduated from the life of all the outcast, in grief and loneliness.

The real edition introduces the reader with the epistolary and literary heritage of the painter. The collection opens with Gauguin’s letters to his wife Mette-Sophie Gad, as well as his friends and brothers on the brush-Emil Shuffenecker, Camille Pissarro, Emil Bernara, Charles Maurice, Andre Fontaine and others, with whom he could trust his most secret thoughts and experiences. Next, the book “Noah” is followed by a poetic traveler that reflected the artist’s impressions of the first trip to Tahiti. The story of the life of the islanders, their religion and culture develops into an aesthetic manifesto, which determined all the oceanic work of Gauguin. “Before and later” is the last essay of an unrecognized hermit, in which “with complete nakedness, without fear and shame” he gives a rebuke to the cruel world. Organically interconnected, these texts open for us the inner life of an amazing artist.