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Cabin at the riverside
Peter de Boer
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,348
Quelle fournaise !
Éléonore Deshayes
Painting - 115 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£4,044
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
£3,594
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
£1,797
Les vendeurs d´oranges
Ana Maria Dias
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£3,055
Nothing life objects
Aasiri Wickremage
Painting - 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£135
Une bonne ceuillette de café
Mara Toledo
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,977
The palace grounds
Aasiri Wickremage
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£359
Glimpse of autumn
Aasiri Wickremage
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£315
Grand paysage lacustre 1
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
£2,157
Voyageurs entre montagnes et ruisseaux
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,696
Walking on the beach
Trayko Popov
Painting - 55 x 75 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
£490
Crisis, What Crisis?
Martin Kerntke
Painting - 125 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 49.2 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
£10,922
Red Riding Hood with Buggy
Martin Kerntke
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
£8,166
Le temps des vacances
Ana Maria Dias
Painting - 60 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,415
From my campervan to the Sea
Peter de Boer
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,887
Man discovers emptywave
Peter de Boer
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,426
To the sea first light
Peter de Boer
Painting - 120 x 170 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 66.9 x 0.8 inch
£3,909
G1
Audrey Chiono (Atelier Galice)
Painting - 60 x 79 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.1 x 0.6 inch
£341
G2
Audrey Chiono (Atelier Galice)
Painting - 75 x 114 x 1.5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 44.9 x 0.6 inch
£440
Waterfall in the Mysterious Mountain
Trayko Popov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£494
Waterfall | Hot Mountain Summer
Trayko Popov
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,348
Dog walking | Castle | Garden
Trayko Popov
Painting - 55 x 75 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
£764
Flowers | Yellow Roses
Trayko Popov
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£467
Dive into the Blue - Jumping
Trayko Popov
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
£467
Dragonfly - Flowers - Garden
Trayko Popov
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£611
Early-blooming flowers
Trayko Popov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,516
Jazz | Music | Saxophone
Trayko Popov
Painting - 75 x 55 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
£494
The pallet of love of Jonas
Jonas Profil
Painting - 90 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£3,979
Cueillette de coton
Edna De Araraquara
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,157
Swimming pool | Blue water | Family
Trayko Popov
Painting - 85 x 100 x 0.5 cm Painting - 33.5 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
£3,055
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.