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Composition Florale11
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,441 $937
Composition Florale 8
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,441 $937
Composition Florale 7
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,441 $937
Les Indiennes 2
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,268 $824
Believe and act 01
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$200 $180
Mirro conversation 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$200 $180
Mirror Conversations 02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1 inch
$450 $405
Conversations 05
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$200 $180
Conversations 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$200 $180
Conversations02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$200 $180
Conversations 01
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$200 $180
She needs love 02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$200 $140
Better off alone 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
$220 $154
Better off alone 02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
$220 $154
Nuit de la Saint jean
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,153
Dans la grotte
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,384
Harmony to Better Life
Kusbudiyanto
Painting - 150 x 133 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 52.4 x 1.6 inch
$10,376
Quelle fournaise !
Éléonore Deshayes
Painting - 115 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,188
Allées et venues en paysage moelleux n°1
Éléonore Deshayes
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,612
Chambre ardente A
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 145 x 145 x 0.01 cm Painting - 57.1 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$5,995
The Last Goodbye
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
$2,600 $2,080
Mon cher jardin d'amour _printemps printemps
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 160 x 160 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 1.2 inch
$10,376
Recouvrement N° 11
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 10
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 6
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 5
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 4
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 3
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 2
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 13
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 12 1
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 12
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 9
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N° 8
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Recouvrement N°7
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,228
Cimes et racines / Cephalanthra
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 180 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$7,148
Cimes et racines / Anémone- Ranunculus A
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 180 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$7,148
Cimes et racines / Ranunculus- Ranunculus
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 180 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$7,148
Cocora XIV (1)
Juan Carlos Suarez
Painting - 80 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$2,652 $1,989
Jungle colombienne
Juan Carlos Suarez
Painting - 80 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$2,882
Experience d'Icare
Akira Inumaru
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$692
Experience d'Icare
Akira Inumaru
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$692
Experience d'Icare
Akira Inumaru
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$692
13. Campervan seen from the water
Peter de Boer
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,384
Martijn Doolaard at his cabin
Peter de Boer
Painting - 50 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,306
Master of camouflage
Peter de Boer
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,902
Boat on the mudflats
Peter de Boer
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,153
Jardin d’Alexandre 3-1 Automne
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 140 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,188
More than a body
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$3,000 $2,400
Dunepath to the sea (in exhibition)
Peter de Boer
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,098
I Am Beautiful - Swan - Lake
Trayko Popov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,075
Tropical Style
When artist Paul Gauguin arrived in Papeete in June 1891, his romantic image of Tahiti as an untouched landscape, a paradise derived in part from Pierre Loti's novel Le Mariage de Loti (1880). What is worth noting is that Gauguin was actually disappointed by the extent to which French colonization had corrupted everyday life in Tahiti. He subsequently attempted to immerse himself in what he believed were the authentic aspects of the culture. By later including Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics, he displayed what is referred to in Western art as Primitivism. Typically borrowed from non-Western or prehistoric people perceived to be “primitive", the likes of Gauguin and Henri Rousseau borrowed from subject matter deemed exotic or indeed tropical such as in Rousseau's In a Tropical Forest Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo (1908–1909).
Despite non-Western art being important to the development of modern art, Primitivism has often been critiqued for reproducing racist stereotypes. Now, it can be argued then that the canon is no longer entirely Western-centric and tropical style art movement has been later depicted by the African artworks of Roger Djiguemde and also Ana Maria Dias who hails from Brazil. Further implementing the importance of this art style despite how exotic its setting.