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By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com Guide to Painting since 2002

Palettes of the Masters: Gauguin

Tuesday March 22, 2005
If you’ve never been to a spot in the world where the colours around you change dramatically with the setting sun, as Gauguin experienced when he went from France to the Pacific Ocean Island of Tahiti, then you may well believe he simply made up the colours in his paintings. But, unrealistic and implausible as they may seem, he was simply painting the colours he saw, something that had long been his philosophy. Read more...
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