12/3/2008 How Do I Listen? Archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format. Click here to download   Problems Listening? Try this Direct Listen Link if the "Listen to Show" button to the right does not work   Hosted by: Dick Gordon Show Originally Aired: 3/3/2004 CALL 1 800-423-TALK Gauguin Tahiti detail of the painting "Where are We From" by Paul Gauguin Email to friend Take a multimedia tour of "Where are We From" by Paul Gauguin, and view the images from the exhibit. "Walls! Walls! Give him walls!" A 19th century art critic was so taken with the work of a little-known painter named Paul Gauguin that he appealed to Paris society to make space for the artist's canvases. "Gentlemen," he said, "how posterity will curse you, will rail against you and spit on you, should a sense of Art one day awake in the mind of humanity!" Humanity has long since awakened to the art of Paul Gauguin. And in a show that has traveled from Paris to Boston, the French painter's lush renderings of his own Paradise Found get walls like they never did during the painter's lifetime. Gauguin Tahiti. The man and his masterpieces. Related Shows Postcards from the Edge: Outsider Art The Connection (05/07/2003) Art Spiegelman The Connection (10/27/2000) The Artful Sleuth The Connection (07/15/2002) The Old Masters Turned Upside Down The Connection (12/05/2001) Artemisia Gentileschi The Connection (02/14/2002) Gustav Klimt's Landscapes The Connection (07/22/2002) Related Links Gauguin Tahiti at the MFA Mario Vargas Llosa, author of "The Way to Paradise" George Shackleford, chair of the Art of Europe and co-curator of Gauguin Tahiti Elizabeth Childs, Gauguin scholar and professor of art history at Washington University in St. Louis.

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