In the Waves (Dans les Vagues), 1889

A nude woman throws herself into the sea, a metaphor for a modern European woman forsaking civilization and abandoning herself to more natural, primitive instincts. The lines and exaggerated colours, especially the green and orange, are invented rather than painted from life. Gauguin established himself as a leader of the Symbolist movement in art when he showed this painting at Paris’s Café Volpini in 1889.

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