175 Years since the Birth of Paul Gauguin

Title:: 175 Years since the Birth of Paul Gauguin
Date of Issue: 29.09.2023.
Author: Nebojsa Djumic
Type edition: commemorative
Printing techniques: multicolour offset
Sheet: block
Paper: muflep 100g
Printing House: Blicdruk, Sarajevo

SHEET    CANCELLATION

Motive: segments from work of art of Paul Gauguin  
Каталошки број: 936, 937
Perforation: 13 3/4
Face value: 7.00 BAM
Quantity: 10 000

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin is one of the three post-impressionist painters.

He had his own style: he painted using large areas bordered by a black line (similar to stained glass). That style was called synthetism, and in it color does not determine the object. Gauguin is the forerunner of Fauvism.

In 1886, Gauguin stayed in Pont-Aven in Brittany for the first time, where he met Emile Bernard, the founder of cloisonne. In November of the same year, he met Van Gogh in Paris. The following year he stayed in Panama, then Martinique, where he was inspired to paint by the colors and sunshine of tropical landscapes. Finally, he fell ill with malaria and returned to Paris, and at the beginning of 1888 again to Pont-Aven, where he joined the painting school of his younger colleagues. There, in a letter, he describes his idea of art:

The advice is, don't copy nature too much, art is abstraction, draw it from nature and dream in front of it, think more about the creation than the result. The only way to rise to God is to do what our divine master does, to create.

He spent the second part of his life in Tahiti, where he devoted himself completely to painting. His works are "Girls from Tahiti carrying flowers", "Where we come from, who we are, where we are going".

He went to Tahiti for the first time in 1891, and in 1895 he definitely went to French Polynesia, where he died in suffering and bitterness. His Polynesian themes boil down to depicting the animal beauty of the female body in colorfully ornamented weavings in the dense green of tropical vegetation. He published his experiences and confessions in the books "Noa Noa" and "Before and After".

Gauguin's art became popular after his death, particularly through the efforts of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who organized exhibitions of his work during the latter part of his career, and helped organize two posthumous exhibitions in Paris.

Author: Nebojsa Djumic

Publisher: Poste Srpske a.d. Banjaluka