Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Brand / DOIY Drawn from the collections of

Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria

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the featured artworks range from the historical to the contemporary--from 17th-century colonial religious paintings to modern film and video installations--in order to trace the impact of European colonization on Indigenous visual culture

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Brand / DOIY Drawn from the collections ofPaul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti. In Wild Thing, the