Paul Gauguin: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1898)
"The theme of an earthly paradise, or Arcadia, has been popular in theater, poetry, music, and art since antiquity. In France during the early 1900s, this idea of a mystical place of contentment and harmony was especially potent--illustrated in mural-sized paintings which were often commissioned for public viewing."
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Yale: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse, Visions of Arcadia
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