No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?)
Paul Gauguin
1896
- Medium
- Oil on jute canvas
- Dimensions
- 95.3 × 130.6 cm (37 1/2 × 51 3/8 in.); Framed: 116.6 × 153.1 × 6.7 cm (45 7/8 × 60 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)paintingbuildingsnineteenth centuryPost-Impressionism19th centurypaintChicago World's FairsChickencanvaswomanCentury of Progressoil on canvasfrenchLeisureoil paint (paint)painting (image making)mysteries/fantasiespainting techniquescirclesbuildingbirdswomenworld's fairslandscapesjuteoil paintingtreeseuropean paintingeveryday life (genre)foliageweather/seasonsNature
About
In this large-scale canvas, one of several Paul Gauguin sent back to France in 1897, women of varying ages appear to go about daily life within a colorful, stylized outdoor environment. Like much of the artist’s work, this painting combines observed detail with artistic fantasy to create a dreamlike scene whose narrative resists simple interpretation. The work’s deliberately provocative title enhances this effect, leaving us to wonder if the “you” refers to someone in the painting or to the viewer.
![Seated Tahitian Woman (related to the painting Te faaturuma [Reverie])](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/2ad75b1c-e2e2-e2ae-57a0-d23cec4d1397/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
