Vision After the Sermon
Paul Gauguin (1888)
Paul Gauguin’s Vision After the Sermon (1888) stages a divide between lived ritual and <strong>collective vision</strong>: Breton women pray in the foreground while, across a diagonal tree, Jacob wrestles an angel on a <strong>flat red field</strong>. With <strong>bold contours</strong> and <strong>non‑naturalistic color</strong>, Gauguin turns faith into pictorial form, making inner experience the painting’s true subject <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
