The brooding woman by paul gauguin.

摘要

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is often seen as a sort of accidental artist; a man who threw off the shackles of a career in banking to pursue art at its purest and to live a life unfettered by the modernity of the Western world that surrounded him. Although Gauguin did abandon a bourgeois life with a family in France for free love and painting in Tahiti, his story as an artist is hardly as simple as that. When the life of an artist is examined, it is usually helpful to start slightly before the beginning of that life. Gauguin's family was full of interesting and mosuy not-so-nice characters. His maternal grandmother was a woman who was admired and much beloved by die working class in France. Flora Tristan was one of France's first feminists and a socialist.