Random word

Gauguin is an English word with synonyms like painter. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

Rare word

Gauguin in a sentence

Gauguin meaning

  1. A surname from French.
  2. Paul Gauguin, a French artist

Synonyms of Gauguin

paul gauguin painter

Related words

Other words often associated with Gauguin or its synonyms:

line panther puma wildcat cougar artist catamount

Using Gauguin

  • The main meaning on this page is: A surname from French. | Paul Gauguin, a French artist
  • Useful related words include: paul gauguin, painter.
  • In the example corpus, gauguin often appears in combinations such as: paul gauguin, in gauguin, of gauguin.

Context around Gauguin

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

paul 8× friend 1× following 1× former 1× change 1× introduced 1×

Often after:

depicted 1× interpretation 1× museum 1× exhibition 1× sought 1× picasso 1× vincent 1× encouraged 1× painted 1× profoundly 1×

Sentence patterns with Gauguin

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and change gauguin sought out 1× and paul gauguin profoundly influenced 1× art of gauguin through the 1× artist paul gauguin lived in 1× befriended paul gauguin who had 1× by paul gauguin in 1890 1× centre former gauguin museum is 1× colleague paul gauguin this led 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a film from 1× are we headed 1× art historian diane 1× coupled with increasing 1× gauguin depicted van 1× gauguin encouraged his 1×

Common sentence endings:

23 december 1888 1× abbot mcneill whistler 1× approach to art 1× arrived in paris 1× degas and cézanne 1× exhausting for gauguin 1×

Words around Gauguin

Just before it in the word index:

gauging 55 gaughran 5 gaughan 28 gauges 131 gauger 6 gauged 32

Just after it in the word index:

gauhar 2 gauhati 8 gauja 2 gaujot 2 gauke 36 gaukroger 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

abhiyan 33 ajibola 33 ajinkya 33 alleyways 33 amalia 33 amat 33

Corpus analysis for Gauguin

  • In this selection, "gauguin" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, paul, friend, following, depicted, interpretation and museum stand out and add context to how "gauguin" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and change gauguin sought out and and paul gauguin profoundly influenced. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "gauguin" sits close to words such as abhiyan, ajibola and ajinkya, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with gauguin

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Gauguin painted the tropical landscape and the native women. (9 words)

In November 1887, Theo and Vincent befriended Paul Gauguin who had just arrived in Paris. (15 words)

The Paul Gauguin Interpretation Centre (former Gauguin Museum) is dedicated to his stay on the island. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

But like all those dark-skinned women in Gauguin’s paintings … or for that matter, John Everett Millais and Ruskin’s first and only wife Effie, perched on the front row at all of Ruskin’s London lectures, they never do smile. (42 words)

Twelve days after the ear-cutting, Van Gogh wrote to Gauguin: 'My dear friend Gauguin, I'm taking advantage of my first trip out of hospital to write you a few most sincere and profound words of friendship. (38 words)

Are we headed toward a world without exhibitions of other immoral, sometimes criminal artists like Paul Gauguin, Picasso or Schiele, to name a few of our most talented and most personally brutal artists? (33 words)

Question examples

Are we headed toward a world without exhibitions of other immoral, sometimes criminal artists like Paul Gauguin, Picasso or Schiele, to name a few of our most talented and most personally brutal artists? (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

Twelve days after the ear-cutting, Van Gogh wrote to Gauguin: 'My dear friend Gauguin, I'm taking advantage of my first trip out of hospital to write you a few most sincere and profound words of friendship.

Gauguin depicted Van Gogh in his The Painter of Sunflowers ; Van Gogh painted pictures from memory, following Gauguin's suggestion.

The Paul Gauguin Interpretation Centre (former Gauguin Museum) is dedicated to his stay on the island.

But like all those dark-skinned women in Gauguin’s paintings … or for that matter, John Everett Millais and Ruskin’s first and only wife Effie, perched on the front row at all of Ruskin’s London lectures, they never do smile.

He also hopes while he's in Canberra to do some mountain biking, visit the arboretum and see the Gauguin exhibition at the National Gallery.

National Gallery director Nick Mitzevich said the show would be an important opportunity for audiences to contemplate the life and art of Gauguin through the perspective of our regional neighbours.

The National Gallery has acquired The Blue Roof or Farm at Le Pouldu painted by French impressionist by Paul Gauguin in 1890.

Vincent's psychotic episodes and mood swings had long been a problem for his family and were now proving to be exhausting for Gauguin.

Advertentie

Coupled with increasing psychosocial tensions (including a conflict with his friend and colleague Paul Gauguin), this led to a crisis during which he cut off his ear on 23 December 1888.

While French cities were undergoing rapid industrialization and change, Gauguin sought out areas he saw as remote, unspoiled, and “savage”, said Juliette Singer, chief curator at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

A film from Skaer’s ongoing collaboration with Rosalind Nashashibi, Why are you angry?, shows Tahitian women in tableaux which reference the paintings of Gauguin.

Are we headed toward a world without exhibitions of other immoral, sometimes criminal artists like Paul Gauguin, Picasso or Schiele, to name a few of our most talented and most personally brutal artists?

This notably applies to Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Auguste-Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt – and many other artists – including James Abbot McNeill Whistler.

Art historian Diane Kelder notes that it was Pissarro who introduced Gauguin, who was then a young stockbroker studying to become an artist, to Degas and Cézanne.

Gauguin encouraged his growing interest in decorative art, an interest that led Maillol to take up tapestry design.

Gauguin painted the tropical landscape and the native women.

In 1912 he visited the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where works by Pablo Picasso and post-Impressionists such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin profoundly influenced his approach to art.

In a contemporary account, Bernard wrote that the exhibition was ahead of anything else in Paris.sfn There Bernard and Anquetin sold their first paintings, and Van Gogh exchanged work with Gauguin.

In November 1887, Theo and Vincent befriended Paul Gauguin who had just arrived in Paris.

In popular culture Les Anses d'Arlet * In 1887, the artist Paul Gauguin lived in Martinique.

Advertentie

Common combinations with gauguin

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "gauguin" in a sentence?
An example: "Twelve days after the ear-cutting, Van Gogh wrote to Gauguin: 'My dear friend Gauguin, I'm taking advantage of my first trip out of hospital to write you a few most sincere and profound words of friendship." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "gauguin" from authentic English texts.
What does "gauguin" mean?
Gauguin means: A surname from French.
What are synonyms of "gauguin"?
Common synonyms of "gauguin" include: paul gauguin, painter.
How many example sentences with "gauguin" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "gauguin", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.