Noa Noa Tafel 14
Gauguin, a pioneer of Symbolism, created this vibrant page for his manuscript 'Noa Noa,' a fictionalized travelogue designed to explain his exotic Tahitian paintings to the French public. The composition is a fascinating mix of media: scratchy, bold woodcut prints of black pigs graze at the top, looming over a serene watercolor portrait of a woman holding a red fruit. Below them, a quieter domestic scene unfolds, showing figures resting inside a hut. It feels less like a finished painting and more like a raw, visual diary entry capturing the 'savage' life he was so desperate to find in the South Pacific.
- Technique
- woodcut and watercolor
- Material
- paper
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