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.

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Breeze - Arm Chair

Paradise van

Mon cher Jardin d’Alexandre – Printemps

Fête du réveillon sur l´avenue Paulista

Hymne d'enfants

Her Blue Eyes

Let´s go for dancing

La ronde

Orange Alert

Mask Dance

Deeply connected

Spring sunset 11

Jour et nuit (ermioni 4h-5h)

Tourbillons

Promenade dans la forêt

Autour du fleuve

La montagne

Recouvrement N°1

Sin título

Vase Terra 4

Une bonne cueillette

Experience d'Icare

Look Up

Le poseur d´affiche

Jagoanku

Le vol des perroquets

La ferme Caporal

Grand paysage lacustre 3

Passion

Les gémeaux (bis)

L´arrière cour de la maison du pêcheur

La traversée

Stillness

Mirador

Spring Splendour

Monterey Green

Série "Carnet de voyage", Dessin 54

Falling waterfalls 03

Daily life in the valley

Four Houses

Merles

Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

Lotus 02

Dont wanna fall again

Blur roofs 21

Magnolia - Selene

shelters

Yellow Line

Scars to your beautiful 03

Hope And Renewal

Bliss Queen

Scars to your beautiful 04

Noise of silence

Seeing you walk away

Self Love

I believe, i can fly

Resilence

As it was

To The Moon

Let Me Down Slowly

Journet through silence

Silent Echos

We Carry within

Two Faced

In the end