Gauguin Portraits
The National Gallery until 26 January 2020 “Gauguin firmly believed that the world could only be apprehended from his personal point of view”, we read on the board in Room 1, entitled Self Portraits. Was he really self-obsessed, as the curators suggest? Or is there a form of ‘honesty’ in a vision that analyses the other from the point of view of the self? A vision that does not try to annihilate the self in order to better understand the other? If you are looking for answers