Ruth Leon recommends… The Haunting Mystery of Gauguin’s Masterpiece – Perspective
Ruth Leon recommendsThe Haunting Mystery of Gauguin’s Masterpiece – Perspective
On YouTube this week I came across this documentary about Paul Gauguin. It was part of the BBC’s Perspective series but I must have missed it. If you did too, it’s worth your time. In it, the unlikely but endlessly knowledgable Waldemar Januszczak (pronounced Valdimar Yanushak) gives insight into the world of Gauguin that we thought we already knew but don’t.
He takes us to Pont Aven in Brittany where the painter gained inspiration for his interpretation of the bible story of the Jacob wrestling with Angel Gabriel, The Vision After the Sermon, and to Peru, where the painter was born, and then unexpectedly into the work of novelist Victor Hugo.
Then he ties it all together in a most surprising but satisfying and persuasive way. All art documentaries should be this convincing.
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