landscape with blue trunks paul gauguin

landscape with blue trunks paul gauguinIn Landscape with Blue Trunks, Gauguin takes us into an exotic world where colours take on an uncommonly expressive dimension. The landscape is characterised by unreal blue tree trunks, standing like mystical sentinels in the midst of lush green vegetation. This chromatic boldness, characteristic of post impressionism, of which Gauguin was a precursor, creates a landscape that is both familiar and foreign, underlining the singularity of his Tahitian

The painting reminds us of his most famous work

accompanied by a child

The subject of this work is thus born in the mind of Henri Rousseau from a story and an environment that he transposes very freely while using Western myths: the earthly paradise

With this life-size oil on canvas

Delaunay uses shades of blue

dressed in a blue dress

such as the objects on the desk

far removed from the hustle and bustle of urban life

and the presence of signs and the cinema captures the essence of a bygone era

where the outlines of the city stand out

The woman's gaze

offering a window onto the Japan of his time