In the Waves ☵ Gauguin ☷ Canvas jungle

In the Waves ☵ Gauguin ☷ Canvas jungleIn the Waves (1889, Dans les Vagues) by Paul Gauguin was created during his time in a small coastal village called Pont Aven where he sought to immerse himself in nature and escape modern civilization. It depicts a nude figure throwing herself into the sea, a metaphor for forsaking the civilized and giving herself to the natural world. Exhibited in 1889, this representation helped establish Gauguin as a leader of the emerging Symbolist movement.

Vermeer has only three known paintings of Delft

bought for 400 francs by Anna Boch (1848-1936)

and one of his most celebrated masterpieces

he made on small wood panels

Enclosed Field with Plowman (1889) by Vincent van Gogh depicts a plowman tilling a wheat field surrounded by a low stone wall under a cloudy sky

and a large book

The Kiss (1908) by Gustav Klimt is considered to be one of Klimt's most important works

although only five prints are known to exist

and yellows gives a sense of movement to the water and the sky

and the plants frame the sailboats in the harbor

He insisted that his paintings were straightforward representations of the real world

Symbolically