there's a new gauguin biography coming out, and in her interview with the art newspaper a couple of weeks ago, it sounded like the author wants us all to not make such a big deal about it www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/20/g...
The American artist on his interventions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a chat about a new publication exploring Gauguin’s complex character, and the details on a new London sculpture paying tribute to tr...
Article says Gauguin autobiography is NOT by Glenn Ligon, it's by French artist Sue Prideaux. On Gauguin's teeth found in jar: "It was thought that the teeth might also offer conclusive evidence for the popular belief that Gauguin had been 'the bad boy who spread syphilis around the South Seas'."
This detailed biography complicates our perception of the bad boy of French art and illuminates his fraught friendship with Van Gogh
I have to learn more.🤔 Saw one of his pieces nearby. Glenn Ligon's, Four Etchings, 1992, highlights texts by Zora Neale Hurston & Ellison. The phrase, “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background” was adapted from Hurston's 1928 essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.”
