Feeling And Thought, Abstraction, By Paul Gauguin

The article is a collection of exerts from letters and documents drafted by Paul Gauguin. The letters were initially conceived between the years of 1885 and 1901 within varying parts of the world. In these manuscripts he writes to his friend Emile Schuffenecker, who was also a Post-impressionist painter, as well as Emile Bernard, and Daniel de Monfried, who was also an art colletion enthusiast. The letters were often depicted as being comprised mainly of debates about what is and is not considered art, and one must go about presenting their work as an artist. Feeling and Thought, Abstraction, and Shadows are mainly about the very nature of painting, how one creates a painting, how one paints correctly, and how one forms an educated critique about the painting, thus involving the reader in the entire life of the painting. Feeling and Thought, takes a long in depth argument on how the success of one’s masterpiece is completely dependent on, the artists relation to oneself and their history, and states that painting also demands both intellect and passion in order to be successful. Within Abstraction he shows his true passion for the subject matter as well as eagerness to motivate the next generation of artists by saying that …show more content…
Thus your work will be your own; your sensation, your intelligence and your soul will then survive the scrutiny of the amateur,” Chipp, 65. I personally disagree with his statement, because as an artist myself I still will need a live reference for most of my works, and when I cannot stay in the actual location long enough to complete the work I will usually take a photograph of the subject to finish it later at a different location, though I understand that photos were not a thing during his