Whats New? (Parau Api or Two Women of Tahiti)

Paul Gauguin

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What's New? (Parau Api; Two Women of Tahiti; What News)
Paul Gauguin
Original Title: Parau Api
Date: 1892; French Polynesia *
Style: Post-Impressionism
Period: 1st Tahiti period
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 92 x 67 cm
Location: Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany


Paul Gauguin was one of the leading French painters of the Postimpressionist period. He is noted for his imaginative subjects and expressive use of colour, in attempts to capture a more primitive emotion in his works. He professed an appreciation of exotic peoples, whom he believed to be innocent of modern civilization's woes.