| When people think of Tahiti, paintings by a French painter, Paul Gaugain, often come to mind. The man set sail for the French Polynesia in 1891, and decided to stay in the South seas there for the rest of his life. His paintings -- which features primitive forms and brilliant colors -- have a certain rustic beauty to them. Incidently, painting was his third career. He was a stockbroker in Paris before that -- and a remarkably successful one at that. When the stock market crashed, he got laid off and decided to become a painter -- and led a penniless life to his death. (Well, he left for Tahiti in part to run away from his debts, but that's another story) http://images.google.com --> Gaugain, Tahiti At least Gaugain got famous eventually -- after his death, of course. But many aspiring artists in history simply never made it. Adolf Hitler, for example, was a gifted artist who just couldn't accepted to art school. He ended up joining the military and got famous in another way. |
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