Color as Mirror of the Soul
Pure painting painters - Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) achieved a new degree of expressiveness through
stylized simplification of color and line.
Being strongly influenced by the art of Japanese colored woodcut, he had developed an art of brightly
colored planes and simplified contour lines. To Gauguin, color symbolized hidden poetry of things, and
it was the artist's task to translate that poetry into a pictorial order, into color harmonies inspired by
nature not derived from it.
The above painting was done with a palette knife after my study in the hidden
techniques of Paul Gauguin. Although I made a few alternations to the reference picture compared with
Jason's, you can still tell that our ways of translating that image into a pictorial order are very
different.
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