gauguin transported the crucifix to a breton landscape.yellow christ," he employed a fiery, unnatural palette and outlined the figure to emphasize its flatness -- deliberately making it more primitive. the setting echoed a local breton belief that saw a mystical connection between the crucifixion and the autumn harvest. "yellow christ," reversed, serves as the background for one of his most telling self-portraits. completed in 1889, gauguin paints himself as flanked by -- or perhaps torn between -- the passion of christ and the image of a ceramic savage. narrator: admired in avant-garde circles, gauguin was still largely unknown, still poor, still hungry and determined to push his art further. in the spring of 1889, the paris world's fair gave him his chance. twenty-eight million people attended the large-scale celebration of the centenary of the french revolution. displays included conventional european art, pavilions celebrating scientific and industrial inventions and novelties. buffalo bill's wild west show -- including the sharpshoote

gauguin transported the crucifix to a breton landscape.yellow christ," he employed a fiery, unnatural palette and outlined the figure to emphasize its flatness -- deliberately making it more primitive. the setting echoed a local breton belief that saw a mystical connection between the crucifixion and the autumn harvest. "yellow christ," reversed, serves as the background for one of his most telling self-portraits. completed in 1889, gauguin paints himself as flanked by -- or perhaps torn between -- the passion of christ and the image of a ceramic savage. narrator: admired in avant-garde circles, gauguin was still largely unknown, still poor, still hungry and determined to push his art further. in the spring of 1889, the paris world's fair gave him his chance. twenty-eight million people attended the large-scale celebration of the centenary of the french revolution. displays included conventional european art, pavilions celebrating scientific and industrial inventions and novelties. buffalo bill's wild west show -- including the sharpshoote