WEEK 4-ASSIGNMENT #2
Form
: Gauguin's composition uses balance and harmony through the centralized arrangement of fruit and a pitcher. The use of rhythm through shape repetition and the contrasting, vivid colors against a muted background is significant. His imagery is straightforward, a still life with fruit and a pitcher that executed his distinctive post-Impressionist style, which avoids linear perspective such as a flat surface and emphasizes two-dimensionality. He uses a creative color palette with complementary colors (reds and greens) to create animation. With its individual dots of pure color, suggests a luminous quality, and when viewed from a distance, these colors visually blend to form additional hues and depth. The everyday subject matter of the fruit and pitcher is common in still life paintings, but Gauguin's treatment
with his distinct post-Impressionist style elevates the mundane to something that carries more symbolic weight (National Gallery of Art, n.d.)
Theme:
The theme also includes the image that is an exploration of beauty in everyday simplicity and the artist's interest with color and form. Still life paintings often carry themes of abundance of nature of life, or the enjoyment of peacefulness. Gauguin's choice to focus on a simple scene could be interpreted 2
