Gauguin's Trip To Tahiti

In 1871, Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker in Paris, married with kids, living a normal life. Then he decided to take up painting as a nice little hobby, and made paintings on a somewhat casual basis for 12 years. But he got more and more serious about it, and in 1883 suddenly quit his job to paint full-time. He soon became estranged from his family, completely absorbed in his art.

Gauguin is well known for deciding to "drop out" of his ordered life and looking for pure artistic inspiration in a "primitive" environment - and he traveled to Tahiti.

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