George Roddam Ordine dei libri

Vincent van Gogh used art to express his intensely emotional response to the world around him. Enraptured by the beauty of nature and tormented by the sorrows of human existence, he produced in his tragically short life some of the most powerfully expressive paintings ever seen. Many have made the mistake of thinking him mad, and he did suffer throughout his life periods of mental anguish. But Van Gogh's paintings are not the works of a madman. Van Gogh famously sold only one painting during his life, but within a few years of his death he was recognized as one of the greatest modern painters

Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of the late 19th century's artistic mainstream. He created paintings whose radically simplified lines and colours echoed the unschooled art of the rustic and native cultures he loved.

Alles über den jungen Wilden der frühen Pariser Kunstszene: akribisch recherchiert und eindrucksvoll illustriert. Paul Gauguin, der nicht nur Paris und Rouen, sondern auch die Südseeinseln seine Heimat nannte, ist eine der schillerndsten Figuren der Postimpressionisten und Wegbereiter der Expressionisten. Wir lernen ihn hier kennen als gescheiterten Seemann und Banker, aber auch als rebellischen Wilden, der immer nur eines wollte: malen.