Post-Impressionism: The Beginnings of Modern Art

Paul Gauguin's Complicated Legacy (1x15)

Data emisji: Lut 24, 2023

Paul Gauguin was both a major painter and a troubling figure. Travel the arc of his artistic life, and the evolution of his painting from his compelling early works to his late, masterful Tahitian scenes. Contrast the greatness of his art with his personal behavior: his neglect of family, serial liaisons with teenage girls, self-mythologizing, and misrepresentation of foreign cultures in his art.