Abstract
Paul Gauguin represents one of the most influential post-impressionists. He started as an impressionist with Camille Pissarro, later followed Paul Cézanne and initiated the Pont-Aven school.
Later he traveled to Martinique, Tahiti and finally the Marquesas, from where he brought new painting subjects, an appreciation of foreign cultures and, above all, inspiration for a free approach to life. He discovered color and its symbolic values for modern art.