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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 earned a modest living from illustrations and lithographs and knew Gauguin before his legendary trip to Tahiti, when they briefly shared a studio above the cremerie on Rue de la Grande Chaumiere.
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