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Diversity- there are many different people represented int he picture

Full range of life represented from young to old

All of us lving together, young, old, animals etc

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1. Nudity: It just feel strange to see naked people there doing things you normally don't do without clothes.

2. Somehow cold colours, it looks like the people are freezing: This has something to do with nudity, but also the blue colour reminds me about Finnish (cold) winter.

3. The statue: I have just teached a course about world religions and this statue has something to do with Hinduism, I think.

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1. The baby laying on the rock on the right.

2. The old woman on the left

3. The fire in the woods in the background.

All three caught my attention/stood out for me because they looked alarming/disturbing (from my own cultural perspective). The baby looks uncomfortable and somewhat ignored. The old woman looks very sad or upset. The fire looks dangerous, unattended and simply out of place.

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1. Natural:

The animals and halfnude people are all sharing the moment surrounded by beautiful nature.

2. Community:

There are clearly some connections and interaction between some of the people. There is a peacefull feeling and it seems like they all get along in their 'paradise'.

3. Religion:

There a the statue in the middle, praying ladies behind and there is also something spiritual in the atmosphere.

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1. People: I found the painting sort of strange. There were several different persons on it but it seemed like none of them were talking to eachother, not even the ones situated in groups. I found it strange that the baby was sleeping on the hard surface. 2. The blue god statue is protecting the people.

3. The nature: I felt that the background of the painting was very nice; the water, green field and the mountain. I didn't like the blue rocky surface the people and the animals were placed.

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Peacefulness. People living in a natural environment that seams very nurturing on many levels.

Color blue, earthy muted tones and the presence of Buddhist or some other type of meditative space.

Men and women, old and young, living together with animals and in a state of harmony and communion with the surroundings.

And after reading Guagin's biography most of my thoughts are now with those innocent young women who might have been his salves. It was 1897 and the time of colonialism. I appreciate his talent but also the moral criticism

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Humanity. Somehow I feel that in the painting there are lot of things that are parts of our humanity.

Differences in balance. I feel that there are a great mix of cultural diversity to be seen and somehow in an interesting balance and people enjoying it.

People not interacting so much directly with each other. A bit like the atmosphere of a meditation.

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Three elements that I picked from the painting:

1. The man in the front picking the fruit from the tree reminded me about Adam and Eve, only this time it was not the woman who got the fruit...

2. The statue of the god as it indicates a culture different from my own.

3. Dressing: some of the figures are in fully dressed in long robes, others only have a small cloth around them.
How you dress is the first thing other people notice about you and based on that you are put in a certain cultural setting.

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!. Peaceful

I just felt the environment in the painting was presented very peacefully.

2. Enjoyable

I also felt the people in the painting were very much enjoying themselves, chattering with

others, lying on the ground, with animals surrounded.

3. The color used was contrast, seems purposely trying to express something.

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1. Animals

I'm not used to see that that many different animals free around people. I'm used to see dogs in a leash and indoor cats. But there are also a duck, a goat, etc.

2. Nudity

There is lots of nudity in the painting. I'm not used to that much nudity.

3. Blue god statue

There is a blue god statue that is kind of protecting the people around it. It feels like religion is expressed feely and it's not very common around me.

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Three things that came to mind about the painting:

1. Nudity - maybe I point out this matter as I'm from a background

where public nudity is a taboo.

2. Interaction between cultures - when I was looking at the picture

in small size, I was seeing different races within the picture but when

clicking the picture large it started to look like the painter is from

different cultural background than the people in the painting, and this

observation leads to the...

3. Oriental look - it seems like the painting is from this angle: someone

(Gauguin) from west is seeing the everyday life of a tribe/community as

exciting and exotic.

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Three things I noticed about the painting:

1. There is a clear use of contrasting warm and cold colours, helping the viewer to pick out certain characters.

2. The painting is expressionistic, which suggests the painter has something quite subjective to say.

3. Animals and people are more or less treated equally in the painting, strewn about here and there, giving a sense of affinity between them.

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French painter

Title: Where Do We Come From? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?

1897

Oil on canvas, 141 x 346 cm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Image retrieved from Web Gallery of Art: http://www.wga.hu/

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