he lodged at the gloanec inn, a cheap and popular spot for many painters drawn to the area.s earliest breton paintings owed much to impressionism. but he gradually stepped away from portraying life as he saw it. gauguin eliminated any signs of modernity and depicted his subjects with intense, vivid blocks of color. reader (gauguin): my reputation as an artist is growing day by day, but meanwhile i sometimes go three days without eating, which undermines not only my health but my energy. this i intend to restore and i am off to panama to live like a savage. narrator: still looking for paradise, gauguin arrived in panama in 1887 with charles laval, a younger artist. work had begun on the canal which would open the floodgates to another wave of colonial adventure. gauguin found work with a construction firm. after two weeks and bouts of malaria and dysentery, the painters made off for martinique and found a new storehouse of ideas. reader (gauguin): we have found a native hut on a plantation. below us, the sea and a sandy beach for bathing and on either side coconut palms and o

he lodged at the gloanec inn, a cheap and popular spot for many painters drawn to the area.s earliest breton paintings owed much to impressionism. but he gradually stepped away from portraying life as he saw it. gauguin eliminated any signs of modernity and depicted his subjects with intense, vivid blocks of color. reader (gauguin): my reputation as an artist is growing day by day, but meanwhile i sometimes go three days without eating, which undermines not only my health but my energy. this i intend to restore and i am off to panama to live like a savage. narrator: still looking for paradise, gauguin arrived in panama in 1887 with charles laval, a younger artist. work had begun on the canal which would open the floodgates to another wave of colonial adventure. gauguin found work with a construction firm. after two weeks and bouts of malaria and dysentery, the painters made off for martinique and found a new storehouse of ideas. reader (gauguin): we have found a native hut on a plantation. below us, the sea and a sandy beach for bathing and on either side coconut palms and o