Gauguin: Maker of Myth: Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2014
- Narrated by Willem Dafoe and with Alfred Molina as the voice of Paul Gauguin, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth. Gauguin (1848-1903) abandoned impressionism to create an art driven less by observation than by imagination. His gifts as an artist were matched by a talent for creating myths about places, cultures, and most of all, himself. This film explores his search for an authenticity he felt missing in modern Europe, a search that took him to ever more remote lands: Brittany, Martinique, and Polynesia. Never finding the paradise of his dreams, he recreated it in his paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints. The film is available for sale at the National Gallery of Art. The film is made possible by the HRH Foundation.
Very illuminating- excellent summary and analysis of Gauguin and his works I’ve come across yet. Narration of his writing brings it to life
Superb!
Amazing painter
I heard on another documentary by a rival "in charge of steering the arts" organization channel that he didn't leave his wife by choice - she was fed up with him and kicked him out as she would be better taken care of by the pity vote than with him not providing to her standards of financial abundance. This is where this film fails - no one reading writing oh saying "golly gee that was so great" can get over the money part - so what if he left a high paying hellhole job to live a simpler life where you could breathe fresher air and everything they ate was organic, walking is exercise and he painted all day with the divine inspiration that we would get to enjoy his version of reality and not only that some of us real people have followed his inspiration about the rat race - he was richer than 99% of anyone who buys the 'slacker got lucky' angle. I vote no more funding for the NGA if they can't even present the facts straight or can't afford a writer who actually likes Gauguin for being a rebel and can inspire the noble savage within us all! If you are part of the establishment then you can't possibly understand Gauguin as you are the people he was trying to help see a better life where technology doesn't make us happier only we can make us happier by being happy!
Of what I know of Gauguin ....part of this is wrong. Gauguin's wife threw him out. Other way around. His wife and in laws threw him out and told him to leave Copenhagen
Kanye in the 19th century lmao