Gauguin's Tahitian period

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artistic period historical art period phase of an artist's career

Gauguin's Tahitian period is the phase of Paul Gauguin’s career marked by his stays in Tahiti, during which he created vividly colored, symbolist paintings inspired by Polynesian culture and landscapes.

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Label	Occurrences
Gauguin's Tahitian period canonical	1
Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian period	1
Self‑portraits with Tahitian motifs	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artistic period ⓘ historical art period ⓘ phase of an artist's career ⓘ
appliesTo	Paul Gauguin ⓘ
associatedWith	Catholic missionary presence in Tahiti ⓘ French colonial rule in Tahiti ⓘ Gauguin’s search for a so‑called “primitive” paradise ⓘ
characterizedBy	decorative patterning ⓘ flattened forms ⓘ primitivist imagery ⓘ symbolic subject matter ⓘ synthetic composition ⓘ vivid colors ⓘ
chronologyWithinCareer	late career ⓘ
country	French Polynesia ⓘ
documentedIn	Noa Noa ⓘ
endTime	1903 ⓘ
followedBy	Marquesas Islands period ⓘ
hasEthicalDebate	colonial gaze and exoticism ⓘ sexual exploitation and relationships with young Tahitian girls ⓘ
hasPart	Marquesas Islands period ⓘ first Tahiti stay ⓘ second Tahiti stay ⓘ
impactOn	Primitivism in Western art ⓘ Symbolist movement in art ⓘ surface form: Symbolist painting development of modern art ⓘ
influencedBy	Polynesian cultural sphere ⓘ surface form: Polynesian culture Tahitian landscapes ⓘ Tahitian mythology ⓘ colonial encounter ⓘ
languageOfDocumentation	French ⓘ
mainLocation	Tahiti ⓘ
mediumUsed	ceramics ⓘ oil painting ⓘ wood reliefs ⓘ woodcuts ⓘ
movement	Post-Impressionism ⓘ surface form: Post‑Impressionism Symbolism ⓘ
precededBy	Gauguin's Pont-Aven period ⓘ surface form: Pont‑Aven period
producedWork	Arearea ⓘ Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) ⓘ Hail Mary ⓘ surface form: Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) Spirit of the Dead Watching ⓘ surface form: Manao tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Watching) Parau api (What’s New?) ⓘ Gauguin's Tahitian period self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Self‑portraits with Tahitian motifs Tahitian Pastorals ⓘ Tahitian Women on the Beach ⓘ The Moon and the Earth ⓘ The Seed of the Areoi ⓘ Tahitian Women on the Beach ⓘ surface form: Two Tahitian Women Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? ⓘ
startTime	1891 ⓘ
usesArtisticStyle	Cloisonnism ⓘ

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Nevermore → partOf → Gauguin's Tahitian period ⓘ

Spirit of the Dead Watching → partOf → Gauguin's Tahitian period ⓘ

this entity surface form: Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian period

Gauguin's Tahitian period → producedWork → Gauguin's Tahitian period self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Self‑portraits with Tahitian motifs