Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

At the age of 37, Paul Gauguin decided that “the only way to become God is to act like Him — to create.”

Everyone has at least once dreamed of buying a one-way ticket and going somewhere no one knows your name. This lecture is about an artist who did it twice.

Who was he?
A bourgeois intellectual, a savage, a stockbroker, or a self-taught artist who changed the world?

During the lecture, you will learn:

• What signs and symbols are encoded in Gauguin’s works?

• How does a painting become a philosophical meditation?

• Did Gauguin manage to witness the “Golden Age” in Tahiti?

• “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”*