Monday, October 28, 2013

Paul Gauguin, The vision after the Sermon, Jacob wrestling with the angel.


 "For me in this picture the landscape and the struggle exist only in the imagination of the people praying owing to the sermon, which is why there is contrast between the life-size people and the struggle in its non-natural, disproportionate landscape."
(Paul Gaugin)

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