Gauguin the full story waldemar januszczak biography

  • Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood carver, musician.
  • In , on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, a syphilitic and alcoholic Frenchman called Paul Gauguin died of a heart attack.
  • The first full-length biography of one of the world's most popular yet controversial artists.

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    &#;Oh, I hate that man. He left his wife and children, was cruel to Van Gogh, and bedded down all those Tahitian girls. I just cannot look at his paintings.&#; This is a simple-minded, uninformed, dull, and predictable comment that inom have little patience or tolerance for, and I have heard it countless times whenever inom list Paul Gauguin among the painters I identify with aesthetically. Several films have been made about about Gauguin, yet none of them have caught his essence, at least until this documentary by Waldemar Januszczak.  It is not a perfect rulle, but Gauguin is vividly present in it.

    Donald Sutherland starred as Gauguin in the film Oviri, directed by Henning Carlson.  In that film, the banker Gauguin and his wife, Matte, are on a Sunday horse and carriage ride with his co-workers and their wives. The financiers engage in shop talk while Gauguin broods.  Finally, the frustrated painter taps the carriage driver on the shoulder and tells him to stop.  Gauguin looks at his

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    Gauguin is best known for his gorgeous paintings of Tahiti in which beautiful native girls sit enticingly on perfect South Pacific beaches. But has the fame of Gauguin's Tahiti pictures blinded us to the bigger truth about his achievements? Acclaimed British host Waldemar Januszczak believes so, and his epic biography of Gauguin follows the painter through the twists and turns of a fateful life.
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    Directors

    Waldemar Januszczak

    Producers

    Mike Lerner, James Norton

    Cast

    Waldemar Januszczak, Dario Encinas Pareja, Marc Douezy, Mette Gauguin, Maiotte Dauphite, Sylvie Crussard, Laurence Prima, Gilles Artur, Joel Hart, Thomas Millroth

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    Gauguin: The Full Story

    In , on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, a syphilitic and alcoholic Frenchman called Paul Gauguin died of a heart attack. At that point nobody realised the incredible impact Gaugu Read allIn , on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, a syphilitic and alcoholic Frenchman called Paul Gauguin died of a heart attack. At that point nobody realised the incredible impact Gauguin's work was to have on modern art. Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote Read allIn , on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, a syphilitic and alcoholic Frenchman called Paul Gauguin died of a heart attack. At that point nobody realised the incredible impact Gauguin's work was to have on modern art. Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood Read all

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