Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter - Paul Gauguin (ekphrasis series) lifestyle The first ('Materials and fragments')

The first ('Materials and fragments') is arranged around a set of themes – colour

where each poetic free-verse works hand in hand with its unique visualisation on paper

pattern stitches (garter

for wiping away the dust of past failures may uncover the contours of future opportunities

Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter - Paul Gauguin (ekphrasis series) lifestyle The first ('Materials and fragments')Criticism is our censorship . . . So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin wrote Racontars de rapin only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. moreThrough discussions of numerous artists, both his contemporaries and predecessors, Gauguin unpacks what he viewed as the mistakes and misjudgments behind much of art criticism, revealing not only how wrong