Paul Gauguin one of the leading French post impressionism painter experimented so much with color and coloring that it lead to the synthetist style of modern art. Like his friend Vincent van Gogh he attempted suicide at one point of time when he experienced bouts of depression from lack of recognition in home and carrier.

Gauguin was disappointed with impressionism as he felt that it was too imitative and lacked in depth. He adopted a bolder style to impressionism which he called synthetic symbolism. In this style he used bright, pure and brilliant colors with an ornamental character of composition and deliberate flatness of planes.

Gauguin’s most expressive works include Vision after the Sermon; Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven and The yellow christ. His famous artworks or master pieces representing post impressionism were “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” and “The Gold of their bodies”.