Paul Gauguin painting

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
By: Paul Gauguin, 1897

I choose Paul Gauguin works because this topic is more interesting and people tend to be more interested about life – “Where are they going, where do they come from, and who they really are.” The Master piece of Paul Gauguin painting, it’s so unique and secretive. He claimed that he did not think of the long title until the work was finished, but he is well-known to have been creative with the truth. There are no answers in the picture but there are three fundamental questions, posed visually.
We see man and woman cloth less, explaining the nakedness of man's human's personality flaws by nature. Nothing can be escaped beyond the naked eye. Just like the baby we see and the three young women nearer to the right those who are closest to that eternal mystery. Paul Gauguin meditates on what we are. There are two women, talking about life; and a man looking puzzled and half aggressive. In the middle of the picture, a youth plucking the fruit of experience just like Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, showing humanity's innocence and natural desire to live and to search for more life. A child eats the fruit, overlooked by the remote presence of an idol – emblem of our need for the spiritual. There are women (one that curled up into a shell), and there are animals whom we share the world with like a dog, bird, and kittens. Talking about where are we going? A beautiful young woman and an old woman prepare to die. Her pallor and gray hair tell us so but no one knows the story behind it.
All this is set in a paradise of tropical beauty, the sunlight, freedom, and colour that Artist Gauguin left everything in mystery for us to find. A little river runs through the woods, trees, a great slash of brilliant blue sea, with the misty mountains of an island rising – bringing out the beauty of nature, and depicting life in a world of mystery we live in.