By looking at Vision After the Sermon in contrast to Martinique Landscape it is evident to see which location, including the place-ideas that Gauguin had about each location, worked best with his style and artistic vision. In Vision After the Sermon he created a sense of Brittany through the costumed piety of figures associated with the region, however, through coloring and compositional make up the viewer is removed from a temporal location and placed in the vision of a faithful Breton woman. By not including aspects of an actual location Gauguin is perpetuating his mythical place-ideas about the primitive spirituality of the region. In Martinique Landscape Gauguin was looking for the savage and the primitive in an untarnished tropical setting. While Gauguin’s place-ideas of Martinique resulted in a disregard for human impact on the location, his western assumptions about the island were closer to accuracy and therefore Gauguin produced a more naturalistic piece. Neither of the pieces can claim accurate representation of the locations in which they were set, but this was never something that Gauguin claimed to attempt. Instead, a mix of artistic vision and western place-ideas about Brittany and Martinique produced these distorted
By looking at Vision After the Sermon in contrast to Martinique Landscape it is evident to see which location, including the place-ideas that Gauguin had about each location, worked best with his style and artistic vision. In Vision After the Sermon he created a sense of Brittany through the costumed piety of figures associated with the region, however, through coloring and compositional make up the viewer is removed from a temporal location and placed in the vision of a faithful Breton woman. By not including aspects of an actual location Gauguin is perpetuating his mythical place-ideas about the primitive spirituality of the region. In Martinique Landscape Gauguin was looking for the savage and the primitive in an untarnished tropical setting. While Gauguin’s place-ideas of Martinique resulted in a disregard for human impact on the location, his western assumptions about the island were closer to accuracy and therefore Gauguin produced a more naturalistic piece. Neither of the pieces can claim accurate representation of the locations in which they were set, but this was never something that Gauguin claimed to attempt. Instead, a mix of artistic vision and western place-ideas about Brittany and Martinique produced these distorted