title spirit
This piece is representative of Gauguins style with it's vivid colors and the exotic content. It also shows the way he thought about the colinization of the tropics by Europeans and the defraying of their culture.

Spirit of the dead watching

Who- Paul Gauguin
What- Oil on Canvas
When- 1892
Where-Tahiti
Why- Romantic art began with an admiration of exotic lands surrounding Europe as well as the natives who inhabited those lands.
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