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The sculpture and ceramics of paul gauguin hardcover october 1 1963 by professor christopher gray author see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
In 1886 the french painter paul gauguin embarked on a series of experiments with ceramics which resulted in a long sequence of finished works.
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.
Gauguin continued to refer to his ceramics as sculpture not as handicraft products.
According to some acquaintances of the artist he valued ceramics works no less than his canvases.
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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.
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There were quite possibly as many as a hundred of these of which few more than sixty are known today.
As a result the sculpture looks rougher and more primitive.
Along with his contemporaries vincent van gogh and paul cézanne paul gauguin was a pioneer of modernist art.
But more than half a century went by before the ceramics aroused any further interest.
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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.
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390 black and white photographs the popularity of gauguin s painting has tended somewhat.
He was only 47 and he had poured all his strength to his art for twelve years.
His use of expressive colors flat planes and simplified distorted forms in paintings as well as a rough semi abstract aesthetic in sculptures and woodcuts exerted a profound influence on avant garde artists in the early 20th century from henri matisse and.
From wood carvings and ceramics to highly finished marble works sculpture was integral to gauguin s artistic practice.
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.
