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"LET US GO TO THE ISLAND OF TAHITI."
======================================= in the woods
"So, let us got to Tahiti together.May the day come and perhaps soon, when I can sit in the woods of the South sea island and live there in ecstacy,in peace for art far away from the struggle for fame and fortune.There in Tahiti, in the silence of a lovely tropical night.We can listen to the soft murmuring of our heart beats in amourous harmony with the enviroment.Free at last!!!!Free at last!!!!! with not a care in the world and able to laugh and sing and dance with full of joy on our hearts."
That is what Paul Gauguin said to his wife before he set off to Tahiti, unfortunately she did not acompany him and he went on his own.

Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker and a Sunday painter and he hanged around with artists Van Gough, and Pissaro and was known in the group as a talented Sunday painter.
Everyone was shocked when he left his job and family to fulfill his burning desire to create.He had participate in a group exibition in Paris with other artists but the reviews were far from encouraging so he left for Tahiti.
He had done right,he came back to Paris a year later with 40 canvases of paintings of Tahitian life and had a one man show in Paris.Again the critics reviews said"If you want to amuse your children on weekends you could take them to Gauguin's exibition".He got really pissed off with that so he left for Tahiti again but this time for good.He hated Paris and was very hurt and wounded.When the press asked,What he think of Paris?He replied"Paris can kiss my ass".
So he left and lived in Tahiti loved those Tahitian women and paint them too.He produced his best work in Tahiti and lived there until he died of siphylis.He had left hundreds of paintings when he died which will worth milloins of dollars now.Such is the life of Paul Gauguin the artist.What do we learn from this?
I have learned that the price for immortality is very high and you have to pay it with your life.
Raymond.