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Description: Day of the God (Mahana no atua)

TitleDay of the God (Mahana no atua)

Creator nameGauguin, Paul

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1894

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on linen on canvas

Dimensions26 7/8 × 36 in. (68.3 × 91.5 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27943/mahana-no-atua-day-of-the-god

Accession number1926.198

SubjectsPainting, French--19th centuryFauvismTahiti (French Polynesia : Island)

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6. Color as the Expression of the Immaterial

Marcia B. Hall

The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting

~~Beginning in the 1880s, painters introduced color that did not represent visual reality. Turning away from materialism and what they often described as decadent urban society, these painters delved inside themselves for ways to express the values they held dear. Although disassociated from institutional religion, Paul Gauguin and...

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Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.229-253

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20830&redirecttoanchor=60019

Chapter subject tags:Painting--TechniquePost-Impressionism (Art)Painting, French--20th centuryPainting, Dutch--19th centurySymbolism of colorsFauvism

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