still life with fan paul gauguin

still life with fan paul gauguinStill Life with Fan by Paul Gauguin is a vibrant celebration of colour and form, a bold reflection on beauty in the ordinary. It is an immersion in Gauguin's post impressionist world, with its emphasis on intense colour and simplified forms. The canvas, dominated by warm, exotic hues, is home to a composition of coloured fruit, a fan and a small, deeply hued mural. The still life genre is sublimated here by Gauguin's attention to textural detail,

The composition of the work

giving the scene impressive depth and perspective

as if they were endowed with a soul

entitled "Moi-même" ("Myself")

adds an extra dimension to the composition and accentuates the dynamism of the scene

By exploring the relationship between geometric elements and colours

a typical American restaurant for night owls

Hopper delicately captures the intimacy of an everyday moment

adding a poetic dimension to the work

In the painting

suggested by a drawing more and more cursive which confers to the painting a surprising expressive value

is one of the pictures painted by Paul Cézanne during a stay in his native Provence