The video below is a experiment with doing a review of the exhibition. In it the man in glasses gets the wrong end of the stick. He is getting confused between Goya and Gaugin a mistake we can all make!
click this link to get to the tate modern site which introduces the exhibition
click this link to get to the tate modern site which introduces the exhibition
The site contains a great video which has read transcripts that Gaugin wrote in the form of letters to various people. You can see that he was well acquainted with Vincent van Gough as well as his brother theo. Gaugin mentions how difficult it was to live and work with Vincent.
Below are quotes from the read transcripts.
"for most people I shall be an enigma for a few I shall be a poet"
"for most people I shall be an enigma for a few I shall be a poet"
"Everything here is harsh and impenetrable. Seeing this fills me with the sensation of struggle for survival a sensation of struggle of melancholy and acquiescence to implacable laws .....I'm attempting to put this sensation down on canvas"
"What is natural in art? In art truth is what a person feels in the state of mind he happens to find himself in"
"Novelty is essential to stimulate the stupid buying public"
"One should always be faithful to one's nature"
"He is a romantic while I am rather inclined to a more primitive state"
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