Gauguin : the other world

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Title:

Gauguin : the other world

Author:

Dori, Fabrizio, author, illustrator.

Uniform Title:

Gauguin. English

ISBN:

9781910593271

Edition:

English edition.

Physical Description:

141 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Art masters (London, England)

Personal Subject:

Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903-Comic books, strips, etc.

Subject Term:

Painters -- France -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Graphic novels.

Biographical comics

Summary:

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848--1903) arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the city-dwelling European. He is free: to love, to sing, and to create. In Copenhagen, Gauguin's wife enjoys no such freedom. She would rather forget her odious husband and his degenerate artwork. Instead, in a city resistant to the avant-garde, she is tasked with selling a collection of his extravagantly priced Tahitian paintings. When they finally go on sale--in Paris, shortly after Gauguin's return--sales are catastrophic. For Monet, Renoir, and the rest of the old guard, nothing indicates that these bizarre, visionary works are of any lasting significance. A biography of an artist whose qualities as a man won him few admirers in his own lifetime, but whose talents as a painter would have an enormous influence on the art of Picasso, Matisse, and many more.

Language Note:

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.

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In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the city-dwelling European. He is free: to love, to sing, and to create.

In Copenhagen, Gauguin's wife enjoys no such freedom. She would rather forget her odious husband and his degenerate artwork. Instead, in a city resistant to the avant-garde, she is tasked with selling a collection of his extravagantly priced Tahitian paintings. When they finally go on sale--in Paris, shortly after Gauguin's return--sales are catastrophic. For Monet, Renoir, and the rest of the old guard, nothing indicates that these bizarre, visionary works are of any lasting significance.

Gauguin: The Other Worldis a revelatory biography of an artist whose qualities as a man won him few admirers in his own lifetime, but whose talents as a painter would have an enormous influence on the art of Picasso, Matisse, and many more.

Author Notes

Fabrizio Dori is a Milan-based illustrator and comics artist. He is the author of the graphic novel Uno in diviso , based on the novel by Alcide Pierantozzi. His artwork has been exhibited in Milan, Modena, Verona, and many other cities.

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Dori pays tribute to the life and work of Gauguin without diminishing the artist's sometimes unsympathetic character in this fabulously illustrated work. Dori concentrates on Gauguin's life in the "other world" of Polynesia, where he created his most memorable paintings and eventually died, while also sketching his life away from Tahiti. Interwoven with the more realistic biography are flashes of Gauguin traveling into the mythological world of Tahiti, in mountaintop dreams and nighttime travels with a figure of death. Dori's images range from the lush palette of the tropics to the more pallid colors of France, mixing panels with a texture like oil paintings for Gauguin's waking life with etchings in shades of brown and black for the gods and spirits. Dori's Gauguin is a man driven by his art, "the tyrant living inside," with little love for those around him. A few final pages by art writer Céline Delavaux add context to this marvelous portrait. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Postimpressionist painter Gauguin helped usher in a new era of modern art, and this haunting graphic novel beautifully evokes his life and artistic drive. The story opens as Gauguin is on his deathbed, where he is greeted by a hollow-eyed god of death, who asks him questions about his life. Gauguin waxes on about his artistic mission, the isolation he sought in Tahiti, his obsession with learning the spiritual secrets of his adopted home, his frustrations with finding appreciation and especially money, and the limits of his ability to truly love, since all of his attention was for his art. At times, he sounds like a petulant child, and fittingly, among the many gods and ghosts he meets, a pallid, shrieking youth occasionally appears and makes demands of him. The dreamlike nature of the story line is gorgeously borne out in Dori's painted panels he brilliantly echoes Gauguin's iconic style, from the stylized figures and imagery to the rich, saturated color. Art lovers will appreciate this enigmatic, unsparing foray into the beleaguered painter's psyche, delivered in an arresting, gaze-worthy package.--Hunter, Sarah Copyright 2017 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Independent UK publisher SelfMadeHero produces some of the most creative and beautifully drawn comics around, and this latest addition to the popular "Art Masters" series is no exception. Here, Italian artist Dori (Uno in diviso) captures the early impressionistic and postimpressionistic or primitivist painting style of French artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). He chronicles Gauguin's striking yet commercially unsuccessful art; his travels from Europe to Tahiti, where his avant-garde style was born; his various relationships with women, many of whom inspired his works; and his life as an artist never fully appreciated in his lifetime. Yet beyond being a biography, Dori's study weaves in the mythology of the islands that influenced the painter's passions, rendered with sumptuous colors. Engrossing from start to finish, this account will draw the attention of anyone interested in the trials and tribulations of a flawed yet highly influential innovator. Verdict Suitable for both teens and adults, this book deserves high praise for introducing readers to an artist who paved the way for such luminaries as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Henri Matisse.-Lucy Roehrig, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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