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Paul
Gauguin (born June 7, 1848, Paris / died May 8,
1903, French Polynesia), one of the leading French painters
of the Postimpressionist period, whose development of
a conceptual method of representation was a decisive
step for 20th-century art. After spending a short period
with Vincent van Gogh in Arles (1888), Gauguin increasingly
abandoned imitative art for expressiveness through colour.
From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti and elsewhere
in the South Pacific. Gauguin's masterpieces include
the early Vision After the Sermon (1888) and
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where
Are We Going? (1897-98).
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