Paul Gauguin Arearea Tahitian Women and Red Dog with Blue Tree Print Framed 5x7

Elegant gold frame with a vibrant Gauguin art print. Perfect for art lovers. Arearea is a print based on an 1892 oil painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin. The original resides in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. Arearea is representative of these works where dream and reality coexist. • In the foreground, there are several motifs, which he had no doubt observed, as they recur throughout the paintings of this period. There are two women seated in the center of the picture, a tree cutting across the canvas, and a red dog. The sky has disappeared; a succession of colored planes - green, yellow, red - forms the structure of the composition. • In the imaginary scene in the background, there are several women worshipping a statue. Gauguin has enlarged a small Maori statue to the size of a great Buddha, and has invented a sacred rite. All these elements create an enchanted world, full of both harmony and melancholy, where man lives under the protection of the gods, in a luxuriant natural environment, in an archaic, idealized Polynesia. • Arearea is one of a collection of Tahitian paintings exhibited in Paris in November 1893.