Ep. 14 - Paul Gauguin's "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" (1897-98)

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

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🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The gospel according to Gauguin is basically an existential hodgepodge that you and I were never supposed to understand. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/1/25/episode-14-paul-gauguins-where-do-we-come-from-what-are-we-where-are-we-going-1897-98 Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "Flagger", "Pacing", "Open Flames", "One Quiet Conversation" Mathieu Lamontagne & Emmanuel Toledo, "Point de vue" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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0:38.0	Describing.
0:42.0	Describe what your face just did.
0:45.0	Wide-eyed and yeah.
0:50.0	It's large.
0:51.0	There are a lot of people in it, but also sort of tropical, exotic scenery.
0:59.0	Judging from their attire, it looks like maybe they're like in Indonesia or something like that.
1:05.0	Individually, they're separate elements.
1:08.0	Little vignettes within one painting.
1:12.0	I don't see something that is immediately to me beautiful. What I see
1:16.1	is somebody with a lot to say. But I really like the two, just in the top corners, there are these two yellow spots.
1:26.0	It looks like they're coming in almost like a sunrise that, you know, how the sun gently comes in and starts to illuminate more and more.
1:32.0	And in one corner, to me it looks like... comes in and starts to illuminate more and more.
1:32.7	And in one corner, to me, it looks like an olive branch.
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