Gauguin's new style was characterized by the use of large flat areas of nonnaturalistic color, as in Yellow Christ (1889, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York). He found his inspiration in the art of indigenous peoples, in medieval stained glass, and in Japanese prints he was introduced to Japanese prints by the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh when they spent two months together in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888. Under the influence of the painter Émile Bernard, Gauguin turned away from impressionism and adapted a less naturalistic style, which he called synthetism. From 1886 to 1891 Gauguin lived mainly in rural Brittany (except for a trip to Panama and Martinique from 1887 to 1888), where he was the center of a small group of experimental painters known as the school of Pont-Aven. In 1883 he gave up his secure existence to devote himself to painting his wife and children, without adequate subsistence, were forced to return to her family. In 1874, after meeting the artist Camille Pissarro and viewing the first impressionist exhibition, he became a collector and amateur painter. After an adventurous early life, including a four-year stay in Peru with his family and a stint in the French merchant marine, he became a successful Parisian stockbroker, settling into a comfortable bourgeois existence with his wife and five children. Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848, into a liberal middle-class family. Paul Gauguin was a French postimpressionist painter whose lush color, flat two-dimensional forms, and subject matter helped form the basis of modern art.
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