Topic > Paul Gauguin Where do we come from? Where are we going...

For example, the two shaded figures next to the tree of knowledge are used by Te Arii Vahine (The King's Wife) created in 1848 - 1903. The old woman who accepts death on the left derive from many of his earlier works, and the example of one of these works is Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses (Be in love and you will be happy) drawn in 1889. Furthermore, the child who is eating a fruit looks like a child in Nave nave mahana (Delightful Days), depicted in 1896. The two women crouching on the right, looking forward, are sisters of those referred to in Nafea fas ipoipo (When will you get married ) created in 1892. Also, the girl with a faint smile on the tears next to the old woman, who learns on the one hand, is staring at a mysterious white bird next to her, depicted by Vairumati, which is the name of the Tahitian goddess, drawn in 1879. There is also a mysterious white bird next to the woman in the artwork. Therefore, he used the real figures he had depicted in his early artwork to draw his more ambitious characters