Artist or monster? Gauguin’s huge new show reckons with colonial legacy – to limited success
What to do with a problem like Paul Gauguin? The 19th-century French master’s radical experiments with color, space, and syncretic symbolism made him a canonical artist. But today, the one that consumes the most oxygen in discussion is not “Gauguin the artist,” but “Gauguin the monster.” Purveyor of primitive fantasies, symbol of French colonialism in… Read More »