Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Mata Mua (In Olden Times)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Mata Mua (In Olden Times)
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Image View:
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Detail, women around a large carved idol or deity
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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: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. (CTB.1984.8)
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Location Note:
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Paseo del Prado, 8
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GPS:
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+40.416111-3.695
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Date:
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1892 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Oceanic; Tahitian
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century; Post-Impressionist
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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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91 cm (height) x 69 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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deities; landscape; Maori; Tahiti; Primitivism; Colonialism
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Description:
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In an idyllic landscape enclosed by mountains, a group of women worship Hina, goddess of the moon. In the foreground, a girl plays the flute. To the left, separated by the trunk of a tall tree that splits the composition in two like a hinge, another group dances round the idol. Gauguin left for Tahiti in 1891, hoping to find artistic inspiration among primitive peoples whose development had been untouched by Western civilisation. However, all he encountered were the vestiges of a glorious past, already doomed to extinction. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-GAUGUIN-TBM-MM-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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