390 black and white photographs the popularity of gauguin s painting has tended somewhat.
Sculpture and ceramics of paul gauguin.
There were quite possibly as many as a hundred of these of which few more than sixty are known today.
In 1886 the french painter paul gauguin embarked on a series of experiments with ceramics which resulted in a long sequence of finished works.
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His works in clay all produced in paris in the mid 80 s to the mid 90 s owe much to the great ceramist ernest chaplet who offered gauguin assistance in firing and glazing as well as access to his kiln in rue blomet.
Gauguin was convinced that a native art had flourished at some earlier period so gauguin began to re create his own visions of this lost art.
He was only 47 and he had poured all his strength to his art for twelve years.
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This bronze sculpture was made from a plaster cast of a carved tamanu wood sculpture and depicts the polynesian goddess hina.
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Interior of the artist s house at the rue karlsel by paul gauguin the work is very significant and unusual.
From wood carvings and ceramics to highly finished marble works sculpture was integral to gauguin s artistic practice.
Gauguin continued to refer to his ceramics as sculpture not as handicraft products.
Sweetman writes gauguin s statue oviri which was prominently displayed in 1906 was to stimulate picasso s interest in both sculpture and ceramics while the woodcuts would reinforce his interest in print making though it was the element of the primitive in all of them which most conditioned the direction that picasso s art would take.
Oviri tahitian for savage or wild is an 1894 ceramic sculpture by the french artist paul gauguin in tahitian mythology oviri was the goddess of mourning and is shown with long pale hair and wild eyes smothering a wolf with her feet while clutching a cub in her arms art historians have presented multiple interpretations usually that gauguin intended it as an epithet to reinforce his self.
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Christopher gray the author of the catalogue sculpture and ceramics of paul gauguin 1963 saw in oviri the expression of gauguin s profound disillusionment and discouragement.
But more than half a century went by before the ceramics aroused any further interest.
