25.+Paul+Gauguin+(1848-1903)

**1. Birthplace **
Paris, France

**2. Art movement (for example, the Renaissance) **
Post-Impressionist Art Movement

**3. Where did they study or who did they apprentice with? **
Through the course of his painting career, he led behind the likes of Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque.

**4. Who or what influenced their work? **
For much of Gaugin's career as a painter, he studied and painted with other famous painters of the era, artists like; Pissarro and Paul Cézanne. For a long time, he set out for places like Tahiti and Panama to study the habitat. There, he would paint, newly inspired.

**5. What made their work unique? Describe their style of artwork. **
This artist had much like in painting with older methods, yet dipicting modern settings. He also had a knack for pastoral accounts and sheep herding.

**6. Is there any interesting story of their life you can share? **
Living in Copenhagen, Denmark, he started a tarpaulin business. It was rather unsuccessful for the reason that danish citizens didn't like french services in their land to terribly.

**7. Include a quote by or about the artist. **
A quote was documented when he left for French Polynesia; "Everything is artificial and conventional here." This was in reference to the boring stable lives of Europeans.