Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Nave nave mahana (Delicious Day)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Nave nave mahana (Delicious Day)
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Alternate Title:
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Jour délicieux
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Image View:
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Detail, an unsmiling young woman looks out to confront the artist (and viewer)
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Creator:
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Paul Gauguin (French painter, 1848-1903)
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Location:
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repository: Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) Inv. B 1038
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Location Note:
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20 Place des Terreaux
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GPS:
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+45.766846+4.83363
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Date:
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1896 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century; Symbolist
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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95 cm (height) x 130 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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genre; human figure; landscape; figure groups; fruit tree grove
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Description:
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In 1891, Gauguin sailed to Polynesia to escape European civilization and "everything that is artificial and conventional". His works of that period are full of quasi-religious symbolism and an exoticized view of the inhabitants of Polynesia. In 1896, he painted Nave Nave Mahana in Tahiti after he came back from a short stay in France. A group of mysterious young women seem to be gathering fruit from the branches of plants. Their feet are solidly anchored on the red ground. Behind them, we can see a yellow sky. Frozen, distant, silent, with eyes cast down and solemn faces, the figures are perhaps a revealing indication of the artist's isolation and ill health at the time of painting. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-GAUGUIN-ML-NNM-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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