If you are in London, don’t miss the exhibition ‘Gauguin, Maker of Myth’ by the Tate Modern Museum.
We are revisiting Gauguin’s most amazing paintings organizing according to thematic sections. We can also find out more about his life with books he read, letters he wrote and photographs of the places where he travelled.
11 rooms are supporting Gauguin’s work and each of them has got an inspiring theme.
Really at the end of this exhibition, you just feel that Gauguin reached his wish to combined observed reality with his subjective vision. On top of that, Tahiti seems to be the best place of the world…
I absolutely loved his writing and style. Un mélange subtil de distinction et d’élégance…
‘You are not mad,
I’m a great artist and I know it.
It’s because I know it that I have endured such sufferings.
To have done otherwise I would consider myself a brigand-which is what many people think I am…
(…)
You say I’m wrong to
distance myself from the artistic centre.
No I’m right,
I’ve known for a long time what
I’m doing and why.
My artistic centre is in my
brain and not elsewhere.’
P.Gauguin, Tahiti 1892
Letter to M. Gauguin.
Sonia Johnson.