11/28/2023 0 Comments Who are we where are we goingInspired by his travels in Tahiti, Gauguin painted Where Do We Come From? as an embodiment of his vision of Arcadia in 1898. Placed on view together, in a dialogue of sorts, these three masterpieces take visitors to the very foundations of modern art. This exhibition explores the theme in three such paintings of the time: Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1898), Paul Cézanne's The Large Bathers (1906), and Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River (1909-17). In France during the early 1900s, this idea of a mystical place of contentment and harmony was especially potent-illustrated in mural-sized paintings which were often commissioned for public viewing. The theme of an earthly paradise, or Arcadia, has been popular in theater, poetry, music, and art since antiquity.
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