Gauguin vs Cézanne: He Fled to Tahiti, The Other Never Left the Mountain

PAUL GAUGUIN vs PAUL CÉZANNE go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

PAUL GAUGUIN

I abandoned Paris, my job, my comfort, to find truth in Tahiti - color that had never touched a European canvas.

PAUL CÉZANNE

You chased the exotic; I found the infinite in Mont Sainte-Victoire, from my own doorstep, until I understood its very geometry.

PAUL GAUGUIN

You painted apples until they rotted, Paul - I painted an entire world you were too timid to visit.

PAUL CÉZANNE

And I built the door that Picasso and Braque walked through - while your paradise, admit it, was borrowed from postcards.

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