narrator: gauguin returned to paris late in 1887 and sold some of his martinique paintings.e perceptive critic octave mirbeau was spellbound. reader (mirbeau): there is an almost religious mystery, a sacred, eden-like abundance in these forest interiors with their monstrous vegetation and flowers and their tremendous sunsets. narrator: gauguin returned to brittany in 1888. two years earlier he had left as an observer. he returned as a prophet. reader (gauguin): i love brittany. here i find wild and primitive features. when my wooden clogs resound on this granite ground, i hear the muffled and powerful thud that i seek in my painting. narrator: finding pont-aven too touristy, he took lodgings in le pouldu, a fishing village on the atlantic ocean. the hotel buvette de la plage was home to painters of a new generation looking for a new path. gauguin urged artists not to copy nature too much and express instead images and ideas forged in the mind. in his painting of jacob wrestling the angel, the bold red background ignores the natural world and replaces it with color that creat

narrator: gauguin returned to paris late in 1887 and sold some of his martinique paintings.e perceptive critic octave mirbeau was spellbound. reader (mirbeau): there is an almost religious mystery, a sacred, eden-like abundance in these forest interiors with their monstrous vegetation and flowers and their tremendous sunsets. narrator: gauguin returned to brittany in 1888. two years earlier he had left as an observer. he returned as a prophet. reader (gauguin): i love brittany. here i find wild and primitive features. when my wooden clogs resound on this granite ground, i hear the muffled and powerful thud that i seek in my painting. narrator: finding pont-aven too touristy, he took lodgings in le pouldu, a fishing village on the atlantic ocean. the hotel buvette de la plage was home to painters of a new generation looking for a new path. gauguin urged artists not to copy nature too much and express instead images and ideas forged in the mind. in his painting of jacob wrestling the angel, the bold red background ignores the natural world and replaces it with color that creat