Si hay un personaje legendario entre los artistas modernos, ése es Paul Gauguin. La leyenda, el mito, el personaje novelesco que él mismo tanto contribuyó a crear, nos ha hecho, en muchos casos, muy difícil distinguir lo que de verdad y mentira, de hechos y de literatura, existe tanto en su biografía como en su figura artística. Su alejamiento de Europa, que oscurecía convenientemente su…
Paul Gauguin fled what he called "filthy Europe" in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kept notes from which he later wrote Noa Noa — a journal recording his thoughts and impressions of that time. Noa Noa — the most widely known of Gauguin's writings — is reproduced here …
`These journals are an illuminating self-portrait of a unique personality.They bring sharply into focus for me his goodness, his humor, his insurgent spirit, his clarity of vision, his inordinate hatred of hypocrisy and sham.` Emil Gauguin, the artist's son, in the Preface. One of the great innovative figures in modern art, Gauguin was a complex, driven individual who, in 1883, gave up his job…
Paul Gauguin fled what he called "filthy Europe" in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kept notes from which he later wrote Noa Noa a journal recording his thoughts and impressions of that time. Noa Noa the most widely known of Gauguin's writings is reproduced here from a rare early e…