From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti and elsewhere in the South Pacific, where his art work Under the Pandanus setting at. Under the Pandanus was painted shortly after Gauguin arrived on the islands in search of his famed reprieve from Western civilization. In Tahiti Gauguin sought an exotic world far from Western civilization, a distant place of brilliant colors, luscious vegetation, and foreign custom. There he found both the real and
From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti and elsewhere in the South Pacific, where his art work Under the Pandanus setting at. Under the Pandanus was painted shortly after Gauguin arrived on the islands in search of his famed reprieve from Western civilization. In Tahiti Gauguin sought an exotic world far from Western civilization, a distant place of brilliant colors, luscious vegetation, and foreign custom. There he found both the real and