![]() News Coverage The exhibit Gauguin would have killed to see, Crosscut Gauguin with the Kids: Tips from Seattle Art Museum Educators, Parentmap Seattle Art Museum salutes Gauguin and Polynesia, Seattle Gay News Pop-Up: David Bali Studio at Gauguin at SAM, Seattle Metropolitan SAM's Gauguin show gives equal due to different traditions, The Seattle Times Gauguin and Polynesia': dazzling mix-and-match, The Seattle Times Seattle's elusive treasure, the Gauguin exhibit at Seattle Art Museum, The Seattle Times Paul Gauguin’s Polynesian “paradise”, Salon Sleepless in Polynesia, The New York Sun SAM meets Gauguin, KING 5 New Day Northwest Gauguin's Inspiration, KING 5 Evening Magazine SAM Features “Gaugin Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise”, CBS Seattle Gauguin's struggle with authenticity lands at Seattle Art Museum, Crosscut Gauguin & l’art maori s’exposent à Seattle, France-Amerique Don't Call It A Gauguin Show, The Stranger Slideshow: Gauguin and Polynesia at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Metropolitan Michael McCafferty Brings Gauguin into the SAM Dollhouse, Seattle Magazine SAM's Gauguin 'Polynesia' exhibit is a U.S. ![]() Teachers, integrate Gauguin & Polynesia into your classroom with our Gauguin & Polynesia Educator Resource Guide. To explore this exhibition a little deeper, download our bibliography. –Chiyo Ishikawa, Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art and Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, with Pam McClusky, Curator of Art of Africa and Oceania In contrast to earlier exhibitions, which included Pacific objects primarily as a kind of visual background to Gauguin’s development as a modern European artist, the exhibition and its innovative approach promise new insights into the relationship between Gauguin’s art and Polynesian art. It will also highlight about 60 works from the Pacific that exemplify the dynamic exchanges of Pacific Island peoples with Europeans throughout the nineteenth century. The show will display about 60 works by Gauguin (paintings, sculpture, works on paper) that fully reveal the extent of the influence of Polynesian art and culture on his work. Through a balanced contextual analysis of Polynesian art alongside Gauguin’s works, this exhibition brings Polynesian arts and culture into the center of Gauguin studies. Past exhibitions have addressed Gauguin’s involvement with other cultures in a fairly superficial way. His fascination with local cultures resulted in a kind of personal, syncretic iconography throughout his career. ![]() When that outpost of French colonialism began to feel too constraining, Gauguin moved to a still more remote location, the Marquesas Islands, where he died in 1903. He sought it in the bohemian arts community at Pont-Aven on the coast of Brittany and later on the South Seas island of Tahiti. The key feature in his personal mythology is the constant yearning for an exotic paradise. This major exhibition marks the first occasion in more than forty years that Paul Gauguin (French, 18481903) has been the subject of a major monographic show in New York City, and the first time that the Metropolitan Museum has displayed its entire collection of the artist's work. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) is one of the true larger-than-life figures in art history.
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