Two Tahitian Women (Paul Gauguin, Post-impressionism)

Two Tahitian Women depicts two topless women, one holding mango blossoms, on the Pacific Island of Tahiti. Although Tahiti is depicted as an innocent paradise, the two women in the painting confront the viewer in a way similar to that in Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass (1863) or Olympia (1863), and follow an artistic tradition of comparing woman's breasts to flowers or fruit.

This painting is Gauguin's representative artwork of his Island of Tahiti series. Gauguin had a close emotion towards the indigenous people on Tahiti Island. The simple and primitive local customs, tropical scenery are his favorarite painting themes. The dark skin and robust body of local females touched Gauguin who comes from the modern civilization deeply.

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