Гоген Поль - Под панданусом 1891
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Под панданусом 1891
67x90см холст/масло
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas, USA
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From Dallas Museum of Fine Arts:
In Tahiti Gauguin sought an exotic world far from Western civilization, a distant place of brilliant colors, luscious vegetation, and foreign custom. There he found both the real and psychological distance to pursue his radical aesthetic goal of an art that does not copy nature. In "Under the Pandanus," Gauguin suppressed spatial illusionism and instead constructed the landscape with horizontal bands of colors which reinforce the two-dimensionality of the canvas. The figures are dressed in pareos, skirts of flowered cotton wrapped around the waist. The red fabric forms a bold contrast to the brilliant green field to the left, a daring manipulation of complementary colors that is repeated in the fruits balanced on the shoulders of the figure at the right. The reddish brown earth bears a calligraphic pattern of undulating yellow—fallen palm leaves—that gives the impression of hot, molten material.
