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sfmoma: Today marks the 164th birthday of French painter Paul Gauguin! Pictured: Gauguin’s Still Life with Three Puppies (1888) From MoMA’s website: When Gauguin painted Still Life with Three Puppies, he was living in Brittany among a group of experimental painters. He abandoned naturalistic depictions and colors, declaring that “art is an abstraction” to be derived “from nature while dreaming before it.”

sfmoma:

Today marks the 164th birthday of French painter Paul Gauguin!

Pictured: Gauguin’s Still Life with Three Puppies (1888)

From MoMA’s website:

When Gauguin painted Still Life with Three Puppies, he was living in Brittany among a group of experimental painters. He abandoned naturalistic depictions and colors, declaring that “art is an abstraction” to be derived “from nature while dreaming before it.”

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    Paul Gauguin. Still Life with Three Puppies. Oil on wood, 1888.
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  6. archivesofamericanartlibrarian said: how did I make it through an art history degree without learning that Gauguin made a painting of puppies?? Clearly a hole in my education.
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