Gauguin's Tahitian period

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artistic period historical art period phase of an artist's career

Gauguin's Tahitian period is the phase of Paul Gauguin’s career marked by his stays in Tahiti, during which he created vividly colored, symbolist paintings inspired by Polynesian culture and landscapes.

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Label	Occurrences
Gauguin's Tahitian period canonical	1
Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian period	1
Self‑portraits with Tahitian motifs	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3349415 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Gauguin's Tahitian period
Context triple: [Nevermore, partOf, Gauguin's Tahitian period]

A. Gauguin's Pont-Aven period
Gauguin's Pont-Aven period was a formative phase in Paul Gauguin’s career in the late 1880s in the Breton village of Pont-Aven, marked by bold color, synthetist style, and deeply symbolic, often religious imagery.
B. Souvenirs sur Paul Gauguin
Souvenirs sur Paul Gauguin is a memoir by French painter Émile Bernard recounting his personal relationship and artistic collaboration with the Post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin.
C. De Cézanne à Gauguin
De Cézanne à Gauguin is an art-critical work by Émile Bernard that reflects on and analyzes the painting and influence of Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin within the development of modern art.
D. Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a late 19th-century group of French avant-garde artists who sought to synthesize symbolism, decorative art, and spiritual themes into a new, modern visual language.
E. Le Pardon de Pont-Aven
Le Pardon de Pont-Aven is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard depicting a Breton religious procession in the town of Pont-Aven, notable for its bold colors and cloisonnist style.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Gauguin's Tahitian period
Target entity description: Gauguin's Tahitian period is the phase of Paul Gauguin’s career marked by his stays in Tahiti, during which he created vividly colored, symbolist paintings inspired by Polynesian culture and landscapes.

A. Gauguin's Pont-Aven period
Gauguin's Pont-Aven period was a formative phase in Paul Gauguin’s career in the late 1880s in the Breton village of Pont-Aven, marked by bold color, synthetist style, and deeply symbolic, often religious imagery.
B. Souvenirs sur Paul Gauguin
Souvenirs sur Paul Gauguin is a memoir by French painter Émile Bernard recounting his personal relationship and artistic collaboration with the Post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin.
C. De Cézanne à Gauguin
De Cézanne à Gauguin is an art-critical work by Émile Bernard that reflects on and analyzes the painting and influence of Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin within the development of modern art.
D. Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a late 19th-century group of French avant-garde artists who sought to synthesize symbolism, decorative art, and spiritual themes into a new, modern visual language.
E. Le Pardon de Pont-Aven
Le Pardon de Pont-Aven is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard depicting a Breton religious procession in the town of Pont-Aven, notable for its bold colors and cloisonnist style.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artistic period ⓘ historical art period ⓘ phase of an artist's career ⓘ
appliesTo	Paul Gauguin ⓘ
associatedWith	Catholic missionary presence in Tahiti ⓘ French colonial rule in Tahiti ⓘ Gauguin’s search for a so‑called “primitive” paradise ⓘ
characterizedBy	decorative patterning ⓘ flattened forms ⓘ primitivist imagery ⓘ symbolic subject matter ⓘ synthetic composition ⓘ vivid colors ⓘ
chronologyWithinCareer	late career ⓘ
country	French Polynesia ⓘ
documentedIn	Noa Noa ⓘ
endTime	1903 ⓘ
followedBy	Marquesas Islands period ⓘ
hasEthicalDebate	colonial gaze and exoticism ⓘ sexual exploitation and relationships with young Tahitian girls ⓘ
hasPart	Marquesas Islands period ⓘ first Tahiti stay ⓘ second Tahiti stay ⓘ
impactOn	Primitivism in Western art ⓘ Symbolist painting ⓘ linked to: Symbolist movement in art development of modern art ⓘ
influencedBy	Polynesian culture ⓘ linked to: Polynesian cultural sphere Tahitian landscapes ⓘ Tahitian mythology ⓘ colonial encounter ⓘ
languageOfDocumentation	French ⓘ
mainLocation	Tahiti ⓘ
mediumUsed	ceramics ⓘ oil painting ⓘ wood reliefs ⓘ woodcuts ⓘ
movement	Post‑Impressionism ⓘ linked to: Post-Impressionism Symbolism ⓘ
precededBy	Pont‑Aven period ⓘ linked to: Gauguin's Pont-Aven period
producedWork	Arearea ⓘ Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) ⓘ Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) ⓘ linked to: Hail Mary Manao tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Watching) ⓘ linked to: Spirit of the Dead Watching Parau api (What’s New?) ⓘ Self‑portraits with Tahitian motifs ⓘ linked to: Gauguin's Tahitian period Tahitian Pastorals ⓘ Tahitian Women on the Beach ⓘ The Moon and the Earth ⓘ The Seed of the Areoi ⓘ Two Tahitian Women ⓘ linked to: Tahitian Women on the Beach Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? ⓘ
startTime	1891 ⓘ
usesArtisticStyle	Cloisonnism ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nevermore → partOf → Gauguin's Tahitian period ⓘ

Spirit of the Dead Watching → partOf → Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian period ⓘ

linked to: Gauguin's Tahitian period

Gauguin's Tahitian period → producedWork → Self‑portraits with Tahitian motifs ⓘ