Il post impressionismo e gauguin biography

French painter Paul Gauguin was a post-Impressionist painter, a co-founder and member of what was called the Synthetist movement. Though schooled in and heavily influenced by impressionism, Gauguin’s style pushed two-dimensional, flat forms, and Synthetism focused on synthesizing three things: outward forms, the artist’s perspective and feeling, and pure representations of line, colour, and shape.

Gauguin was born Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin in Paris France.

His father was a journalist and his mother was the daughter of socialist leader Flora Tristan. At the age of three, Gauguin moved to Peru (his mother was half-Peruvian) because of political difficulties and the four years he spent there would heavily influence his art.

Though his father died on their way to Peru, Gauguin – now seven years old - and his family returned to France live with his grandfather.

As a young adult, Gauguin entered military service, and it wasn’t until he was 23 that he returned to Pa