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Look Ask - de Young Museum · 2019-12-17 · Look Ask Take a look at the settings in both of these...
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Look Ask Take a look at the settings in both of these paintings. Notice what the figures are doing in each painting. Find the similarities and differences. Gauguin was fascinated by color and how it made him feel. Think of a place that looked, smelled, or sounded different than your home. List some things you remember about that place: Circle the colors you would want to use to show that place. Gauguin said, “Look at a great spider, a tree trunk in the forest— both arouse strong feeling, without your knowing why . . . All our five senses reach the brain directly.”
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Take a look at the settings in both of these paintings. Notice what the figures are doing in each painting. Find the similarities and differences. Gauguin was fascinated by color and how it made him feel.
Think of a place that looked, smelled, or sounded different than your home. List some things you remember about that place:
Circle the colors you would want to use to show that place.
Gauguin said, “Look at a great spider, a tree trunk in the forest—both arouse strong feeling, without your knowing why . . . All our five senses reach the brain directly.”
CreateFind one of the carved gable figures made by Māori artists from New Zealand. Most human images in Māori art portray ancestors and are known as tiki. This tekoteko (gable figure) likely would have decorated the peak of an important building in a Māori community. These carved figures are similar to those Gauguin saw when he visited museums in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1895.
Choose two different carved figures to draw. Look for the shapes that make the forms of the body and sketch them.
Images: Paul Gauguin, Figures in a Garden, ca. 1881. Oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 44 7/8 in. (87 x 114 cm). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, on long-term loan from the National Gallery of Denmark, SMK 3098
Paul Gauguin, Reclining Tahitian Women or The Amusement of the Evil Spirit, 1894. Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 38 5/8 in. (60 x 98 cm). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, MIN 1832
Unidentified artist, New Zealand, Māori, Ngāti Porou, gable figure (tekoteko) of Ko Tüwhakairiora, ca. 1880. Wood, abalone shell (paua), and human hair, 31 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (80 x 19.1 x 18.7 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Midwinter International Exposition, through M. H. de Young, 5522
