Paul Gauguin does not share the Impressionists'…

Paul Gauguin does not share the Impressionists' disregard for defined forms or compositional elements, although he has continued to exhibit with them.

He feels that their preoccupation with the study of light effects in nature is confining, superficial, and neglectful of thought and ideas.

He seeks to develop a new decorative style in art based on areas of pure color (e.g., without shaded areas or modeling), a few strong lines, and an almost two-dimensional arrangement of parts.

His own works at Impressionist show—nine paintings and a carved wood relief—win little attention, however, overshadowed as they are by Seurat's La Grande Jatte.

Frustrated and destitute at thirty-eight, Gauguin begins to make ceramic vessels for sale.