Paul Gauguin has alternated for several years…
1891 CE
In Paris he has become acquainted with the avant-garde literary circles of Symbolist poets such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, and Arthur Rimbaud (who dies in November of this year).
These poets, who advocate abandoning traditional forms in order to embody inner emotional and spiritual life, see their equivalent in the visual arts in the work of Gauguin.
In a (later famous) essay in the Mercure de France in 1891, Aurier declares Gauguin to be the leader of a group of Symbolist artists, and he defines his work as "ideational, symbolic, synthetic, subjective, and decorative."
Gauguin leaves for Tahiti early in 1891.
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