Gauguin's Tahitian period
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Gauguin's Tahitian period is the phase of Paul Gauguin’s career marked by his stays in Tahiti, during which he created vividly colored, symbolist paintings inspired by Polynesian culture and landscapes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gauguin's Tahitian period canonical | 1 |
| Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian period | 1 |
| Self‑portraits with Tahitian motifs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3349415 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gauguin's Tahitian period Context triple: [Nevermore, partOf, Gauguin's Tahitian period]
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Gauguin's Pont-Aven period
Gauguin's Pont-Aven period was a formative phase in Paul Gauguin’s career in the late 1880s in the Breton village of Pont-Aven, marked by bold color, synthetist style, and deeply symbolic, often religious imagery.
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Souvenirs sur Paul Gauguin
Souvenirs sur Paul Gauguin is a memoir by French painter Émile Bernard recounting his personal relationship and artistic collaboration with the Post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin.
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C.
De Cézanne à Gauguin
De Cézanne à Gauguin is an art-critical work by Émile Bernard that reflects on and analyzes the painting and influence of Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin within the development of modern art.
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Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a late 19th-century group of French avant-garde artists who sought to synthesize symbolism, decorative art, and spiritual themes into a new, modern visual language.
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Le Pardon de Pont-Aven
Le Pardon de Pont-Aven is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard depicting a Breton religious procession in the town of Pont-Aven, notable for its bold colors and cloisonnist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gauguin's Tahitian period Target entity description: Gauguin's Tahitian period is the phase of Paul Gauguin’s career marked by his stays in Tahiti, during which he created vividly colored, symbolist paintings inspired by Polynesian culture and landscapes.
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A.
Gauguin's Pont-Aven period
Gauguin's Pont-Aven period was a formative phase in Paul Gauguin’s career in the late 1880s in the Breton village of Pont-Aven, marked by bold color, synthetist style, and deeply symbolic, often religious imagery.
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B.
Souvenirs sur Paul Gauguin
Souvenirs sur Paul Gauguin is a memoir by French painter Émile Bernard recounting his personal relationship and artistic collaboration with the Post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin.
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C.
De Cézanne à Gauguin
De Cézanne à Gauguin is an art-critical work by Émile Bernard that reflects on and analyzes the painting and influence of Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin within the development of modern art.
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D.
Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a late 19th-century group of French avant-garde artists who sought to synthesize symbolism, decorative art, and spiritual themes into a new, modern visual language.
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E.
Le Pardon de Pont-Aven
Le Pardon de Pont-Aven is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard depicting a Breton religious procession in the town of Pont-Aven, notable for its bold colors and cloisonnist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artistic period
ⓘ
historical art period ⓘ phase of an artist's career ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Paul Gauguin ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Catholic missionary presence in Tahiti
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French colonial rule in Tahiti ⓘ Gauguin’s search for a so‑called “primitive” paradise ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
decorative patterning
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flattened forms ⓘ primitivist imagery ⓘ symbolic subject matter ⓘ synthetic composition ⓘ vivid colors ⓘ |
| chronologyWithinCareer | late career ⓘ |
| country | French Polynesia ⓘ |
| documentedIn | Noa Noa ⓘ |
| endTime | 1903 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Marquesas Islands period ⓘ |
| hasEthicalDebate |
colonial gaze and exoticism
ⓘ
sexual exploitation and relationships with young Tahitian girls ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Marquesas Islands period
ⓘ
first Tahiti stay ⓘ second Tahiti stay ⓘ |
| impactOn |
Primitivism in Western art
ⓘ
Symbolist movement in art ⓘ
surface form:
Symbolist painting
development of modern art ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Polynesian cultural sphere
ⓘ
surface form:
Polynesian culture
Tahitian landscapes ⓘ Tahitian mythology ⓘ colonial encounter ⓘ |
| languageOfDocumentation | French ⓘ |
| mainLocation | Tahiti ⓘ |
| mediumUsed |
ceramics
ⓘ
oil painting ⓘ wood reliefs ⓘ woodcuts ⓘ |
| movement |
Post-Impressionism
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surface form:
Post‑Impressionism
Symbolism ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Gauguin's Pont-Aven period
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surface form:
Pont‑Aven period
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| producedWork |
Arearea
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Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) ⓘ Hail Mary ⓘ
surface form:
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Spirit of the Dead Watching ⓘ
surface form:
Manao tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Watching)
Parau api (What’s New?) ⓘ Gauguin's Tahitian period self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Self‑portraits with Tahitian motifs
Tahitian Pastorals ⓘ Tahitian Women on the Beach ⓘ The Moon and the Earth ⓘ The Seed of the Areoi ⓘ Tahitian Women on the Beach ⓘ
surface form:
Two Tahitian Women
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? ⓘ |
| startTime | 1891 ⓘ |
| usesArtisticStyle | Cloisonnism ⓘ |
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Referenced by (3)
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this entity surface form:
Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian period
this entity surface form:
Self‑portraits with Tahitian motifs