Te Aa No Areois – The Seed Of Areoi

Te Aa No Areois aka The Seed Of Areoi

“During his first Tahitian period, Gauguin developed many of the qualities of his work which would certainly accompany him for a lot of his occupation.

As such, paintings from the start of that period often tend to be fairly experimental in some aspects, and often repeat make-up as well as color schemes, as if the artist was looking for the perfect combination to express the Tahitian pureness as he saw it.

To attain that, Gauguin would create a social composite, incorporating his influences from a rather diverse variety of non-European sources. In this oil on canvas, the position, for example, imitates the Egyptian hieratic postures, although the placement of the design’s arms is a lot more informed by the middle ages Javanese alleviations in the Borobudur holy place, to which Gauguin often alluded and also throughout his entire occupation.

Lastly, as well as possibly least noticeable, is the influence of Japanese art, or rather of the Western view of Japanese art, often called Japonism, which is more of a fascination with fictional Japan in the Western mind. Absolutely, it is not a stretch to define Gauguin’s artwork as basically colonialist, being as it is the idealized sight of Tahiti as seen by a European who is part of the society that shackled the island. Although the Tahiti seen by Gauguin was one struck by poverty and widespread health issues, he demanded depicting the Tahiti he had imagined, not the one he saw.

In this piece from 1892, a mere year into Gauguin’s first period of living in the island, Gauguin asserted to have taken his palette from the Tahitian nature, although the colorful variety, as well as pressure, are most likely less because of the island atmosphere, which they do not stand for faithfully, and also more due to Gauguin’s eye for make-up and also, as has actually been mentioned, riches of impacts.

Representing the artist’s 13-year-old island bride in the function of Vaïraümati, that, according to the ideas of the Polynesian secret society called Areoi, was one of the most lovely temporal, that laid with the sunlight god as well as gave birth to develop a brand-new race. The very same subject was likewise checked out in the less well-known Vairaumati Tei Oa or Her name is Vairaumati, with a more busy history as well as more controlled colors.

This was the first of Gauguin’s artworks to be gotten by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, where it still is, although not because of the general public.”