Paul Gauguin: 90+ Post-Impressionist Paintings - Post Impressionism
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PAUL GAUGUIN Art Book contains 90+ Reproductions of Landscapes, Seascapes and Portraits, Tahiti and France, Religious scenes and Still Lifes with title,date and introduction below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist painter born in Paris, France. The son of journalist who died when Paul was three, leaving his mother and sister to make a living on their own.At seventeen, Gauguin was a sailor in the merchant marines to satisfy his required military service. After his military service he became a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874, he began to paint on weekends. By the age of 35, with the encouragement of Camille Pissarro, he devoted himself completely to his art, having given uphis position and separated (1885) from his wife and five children. Associating himself with the Impressionists, he exhibited with them from 1879 to 1886. The next year he sailed for Panama and Martinique. In protest against the "disease" of civilization, he determined to live primitively, but illness forced him to return to France. The next years were spent in Paris and Brittany, with abrief but tragic stay with Van Gogh at Arles.In 1903, suffering from syphilis, Gauguin died on May 08, of an overdose of morphine and possibly heart attack before he could start a required prison sentence. His body had been weakened by alcohol and a dissipated life. He was 54 years old.
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I like that these are relatively inexpensive, but it's disappointing that you can't zoom in on the images to see any level of detail. It wouldn't cost them much more to make surface details of the paintings visible, and the books would be much more interesting and worth collecting. They're really ignoring the zoom capabilities of tablets and the usefulness of better images to students, artists, and art lovers in general. There's an opportunity to do something really great with this technology and I hope someone can improve on these, and keep them affordable for the masses.