Paul Gaugauin

Eugene Paul Gauguin,a french post-impressionist painter who was not been appreciated until the day of his death.But then his work was recognized for his experimental of using color and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from impressionism.His art is influential to the French artist such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.His art became popular after his death and many of his possession of Russian collector Sergei Shcukin.

Under the influence of folk art Japanese Prints,Gaugauin's work evolved towards Cloisonnism ,a style given its name by the critic Edouard Dujardin in response to Emile Bernard's method of painting.In "The Yellow Christ"(1889).often cited as a quintessential Cloisonnist work, the image was reduced to areas of pure color separated by heavy black outlines.