Eug�ne Henri Paul Gauguin
(June 7, 1848 - May 9, 1903) Eug�ne Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist painter. On the subject of line and drawing, Gauguin said in 1879, "One must draw and draw again�It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one day you are amazed to discover that you have found the way to render a thing with its own character�don't make pretty, clever little lines, but be simple and insist on the major lines that count�" His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art... Click Here to read the full biography. |
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