After the Impressionists talk 3: Gauguin

Onsite at the Museum and online via Zoom.

This is the third talk in our series of Post-Impressionists as Change Makers.

In this talk, Juliet Heslewood, art historian and author, will explore how although Paul Gauguin had learned much from the Impressionist group, he found it fell short of his interests that were leading away from the purely visible.

Gauguin often escaped Paris and stayed in Brittany where in painting the local people and their lives he hoped to create work that was 'like the sound of my clogs on the earth'.

In Martinique, where he stayed in 1887, and in Tahiti in the 1890s, he was moved to explore the very essence of different cultures, leading to a taste for 'Primitivism' in artists such as Picasso, Matisse and the German Die Brûcke.