Pictures of the First Tahiti Period - Paul Gauguin

The French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) left for Tahiti in April 1891. Gauguin first settled in Papeete, the capital of Tahiti. When he could not find themes representing the traditional Tahiti lifestyle, traditions, and culture, he moved to Mataeia on the southern shore of Tahiti. He started living in a hut here. In the first paintings he made, he tried to capture only the environmental characteristics of this island. Gauguin made his first Tahitian landscapes here.

One of his first portraits in Tahiti was "Woman with a Flower". A Tahitian woman dressed in a European-style dress was depicted. Gauguin's compositions in Tahiti were generally based on two figures. In his paintings, he depicted sitting, standing or lying figures. There was no narrative connection between these figures. Gauguin found what he was looking for in the artistic sense in Tahiti. But happy days would not last long. Although his three years in Tahiti were fruitful, his illness and shortage of money forced Gauguin to return to France in 1893.