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Caravan Paradise IV
Peter de Boer
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
To create the meaning
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€1,944
Having so much inside
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 2 inch
€3,013
Live in my soul 2
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch
€486
Treehouse at waterfall
Peter de Boer
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,610
Emotion and conflict
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
€632
Smile, there's rose
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€583
With strength and grace 02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 30 x 2 inch
€729
When I get there
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
€1,361
Breathing in your dust
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€1,458
Feeling of emptiness
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 inch
€680
Jour et nuit (ermioni 8h-11h)
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 50 x 73 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 inch
€2,000
Cimes et racines / Anémone 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Cimes et racines / Ranunculus- Anémone
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 92 x 60 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 inch
€2,000
Cimes et racines / Leonpodium 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Cimes et racines / Néottie 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Awaken your heart
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€758
Better off alone 01
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 2 inch
€875
River stones 2
Anna Masiul-Gozdecka
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,700
Stories underneath 3
Anna Masiul-Gozdecka
Painting - 110 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,900
Campervan seen from the water
Peter de Boer
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,490
Monstera with fish
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
€1,166
Resisting the present
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 2 inch
€2,139
Realms of life
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 2 inch
€3,402
Having so much inside
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
€2,430
Appreciate what you have
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€1,944
Half-shadow
Anna Masiul-Gozdecka
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,700
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.