Now it’s Gauguin at Sky Gallery
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Hot on the heels of the immensely successful “Van Gogh In Sri Lanka” the Fareed Uduman Art Forum is now presenting “Gauguin In Sri Lanka” at Sky Gallery from August 18-27. The exhibition will show 45 fine museum quality canvas prints framed in the exact sizes of the originals painted by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903).
Visitors can see up close the glorious colour and the huge sizes of Gauguin’s paintings, carefully selected from his period works of Rouen, Paris, Provence, Martinique, Brittany, Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. Among them are masterpieces such as The Yellow Christ, When will you marry?, What news, Two Tahitian Women, What! Are You Jealous?, Where Are You Going?, Adam and Eve and We shall not go to market today.
Initially schooled in Impressionism, Gauguin broke away to pioneer a new style of painting broadly referred to as Symbolism, experimenting with new colour theories and semi-decorative approaches. He famously worked one summer alongside Vincent Van Gogh in the south of France – nine turbulent weeks. Gauguin’s rejection of his European family, society, and the Paris art world for a life apart, in the land of the “Other,” has come to serve as a romantic ideal of the artist as a wandering mystic.
Gauguin began travelling regularly to the south Pacific in the early 1890s, where he developed a new style that married everyday observation with mystical symbolism, a style strongly influenced by the popular, so-called “primitive” arts of Africa, Asia, and French Polynesia.
Gauguin’s use of strong colours and representation of primitive forms was hugely influential, inspiring such notable artists as Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. In his final decade, Gauguin lived in Tahiti, and subsequently Punaauia, finally making his way to the Marquesas Islands.
The Art Forum is dedicated to bringing to the people of Sri Lanka, works of art beyond their reach, including masterpieces of great European painters whose works hang in faraway galleries and museums.
“Gauguin In Sri Lanka” will be up at Sky Gallery of the Fareed Uduman Art Forum, 65/9 Kirula Road Colombo 5, from August 18-27 (from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily).
Visitors please note that there is a stairway to climb up to the gallery. Contact: 0777329596
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