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Gauguin

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Gau·guin  (g-g), (Eugène Henri) Paul 1848-1903.
French artist whose paintings are characterized by simplified forms and brilliant colors and are partially responsible for the significance of primitivism in modern art.
Gauguin (French) [gogɛ̃]
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(Biographies / Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) M, French, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Paul (pɔl). 1848-1903, French postimpressionist painter, who worked in the South Pacific from 1891. Inspired by primitive art, his work is characterized by flat contrasting areas of pure colours
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Noun1.Gauguin - French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903)
Paul Gauguin
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He had recently moved to the town after spending months at a mental hospital in southern France where he famously cut off a piece of his own ear following an argument with friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin.
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But academics now claim his French rival Paul Gauguin sliced off his lug with a sword in a fight outside a brothel over a hooker named Rachel.
Vincent study is only 'earsay by The Mirror (London, England)
In the traditional story, the disturbed Dutch painter severed his left ear with a razor blade after a furious row with Gauguin over a prostitute called Rachel and the nature of art.
Gauguin may have cut off van Gogh's ear; IN BRIEF by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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