Detail View: The AMICA Library: Dans les vagues
|
AMICA ID:
|
CMA_.1978.63
|
|
AMICA Library Year:
|
1998
|
|
Object Type:
|
Paintings
|
|
Creator Name:
|
Gauguin, Paul
|
|
Creator Nationality:
|
European; French
|
|
Creator Role:
|
artist
|
|
Creator Dates/Places:
|
1848 - 1903
|
|
Gender:
|
M
|
|
Creator Name-CRT:
|
Paul Gauguin
|
|
Title:
|
In the Waves
|
|
Title:
|
Dans les vagues
|
|
Title Type:
|
Primary
|
|
Title Type:
|
Foreign
|
|
View:
|
Full View
|
|
Creation Date:
|
1889
|
|
Creation Start Date:
|
1889
|
|
Creation End Date:
|
1889
|
|
Materials and Techniques:
|
oil on canvas
|
|
Dimensions:
|
Unframed: 92cm x 72cm
|
|
AMICA Contributor:
|
The Cleveland Museum of Art
|
|
Owner Location:
|
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
|
|
ID Number:
|
1978.63
|
|
Credit Line:
|
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Powell Jones
|
|
Inscriptions:
|
signed lower center: P. Gauguin. 89-
|
|
Rights:
|
|
|
Context:
|
Gauguin painted this canvas in April 1889 at Pont-Aven, a small village in northwest France. He left Paris for this remote, rugged area along the Atlantic coasts in hopes of finding a more primitive, natural life. The painting shows a nude woman, one hand raised to her mouth, throwing herself into the sea. This mysterious image has been interpreted as symbolic of the soul's abandoning itself to nature. Intensifying the painting's emotional impact, the simplified lines and colors, especially the contrasting green and orange, seem invented rather than observed from life. In 1889 this painting appeared in an exhibition at the Café Volpini in Paris, considered to be the first exhibition of the Symbolists- a group of artists whose works explored dreams,fantasy, and the realm of the imagination.
|
|
Related Image Identifier Link:
|
CMA_.1978.63.tif
|