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Gauguin was a merchant seaman and a stockbroker before he became a painter. He began painting in his spare time, but eventually abandoned his business career and his family, and devoted himself entirely to painting. During this time he often skipped on his rent, for lack of funds. Gauguin is distinctive for using massive simplified forms with large, bright planes of color. In Tahiti his work took on its famous primitive quality.

