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More than a body
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$3,000
Bamba meu boi (Fête folclorique)
Wilma Ramos
Painting - 45 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$893
Promenade dans la forêt
Wilma Ramos
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$726
En jouant avec les bouées
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 30 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Dans la grotte
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,340
Le déménagement
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 30 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,786
Le travail dans le champs de canne à sucre
Mara Toledo
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,902
Composition Florale11
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,395
Composition Florale 10
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,395
Composition Florale 8
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,395
Composition Florale 7
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,395
Les Indiennes 2
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,228
Boat on the mudflats
Peter de Boer
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Purple colored morning
Peter de Boer
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,898
Horse riding on the beach
Trayko Popov
Painting - 101 x 72 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 28.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,340
Cocora XIV (1)
Juan Carlos Suarez
Painting - 80 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$2,567
Green, Yellow Birds & Cascade
Albott Bonhomme
Painting - 24 x 20 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.9 inch
$1,000
Des bananes argent
Ana Maria Dias
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,786
Vallée de Cocora
Juan Carlos Suarez
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,456
Jungle colombienne
Juan Carlos Suarez
Painting - 80 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$2,791
Dunepath to the sea (in exhibition)
Peter de Boer
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,032
Cabin at the riverside
Peter de Boer
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Quelle fournaise !
Éléonore Deshayes
Painting - 115 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,023
Allées et venues en paysage moelleux n°1
Éléonore Deshayes
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,465
How do we get there?
Peter de Boer
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,233
Les vendeurs d´oranges
Ana Maria Dias
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,795
Nothing life objects
Aasiri Wickremage
Painting - 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$167
Voyageurs entre montagnes et ruisseaux
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,349
Une bonne ceuillette de café
Mara Toledo
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,456
The palace grounds
Aasiri Wickremage
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$447
Tropical Style
When artist Paul Gauguin arrived in Papeete in June 1891, his romantic image of Tahiti as an untouched landscape, a paradise derived in part from Pierre Loti's novel Le Mariage de Loti (1880). What is worth noting is that Gauguin was actually disappointed by the extent to which French colonization had corrupted everyday life in Tahiti. He subsequently attempted to immerse himself in what he believed were the authentic aspects of the culture. By later including Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics, he displayed what is referred to in Western art as Primitivism. Typically borrowed from non-Western or prehistoric people perceived to be “primitive", the likes of Gauguin and Henri Rousseau borrowed from subject matter deemed exotic or indeed tropical such as in Rousseau's In a Tropical Forest Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo (1908–1909).
Despite non-Western art being important to the development of modern art, Primitivism has often been critiqued for reproducing racist stereotypes. Now, it can be argued then that the canon is no longer entirely Western-centric and tropical style art movement has been later depicted by the African artworks of Roger Djiguemde and also Ana Maria Dias who hails from Brazil. Further implementing the importance of this art style despite how exotic its setting.