In this “By The Sea” abstract art print, is Paul Gauguin’s “Fatata te Miti” (By The Sea)” featured as a reproduction giclee print. Soon after his arrival in the tropics, Gauguin’s style began to change subtly. He had relaxed his formal style somewhat and in this painting, the colors meet each other in easy curves and graceful abstract shapes. Gauguin continued to pursue his “synthetic” use of color–colors used for their own sake or as symbolic of an emotion or thought.

ABOUT THE MAKER:
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 – May 8, 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin’s art became popular after his death and many of his paintings were in the possession of Russian collector Sergei Shchukin.

Gauguin was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with color led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art, while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.