Les Alyscamps 1888

"Les Alyscamps" is a landscape painting by Paul Gauguin, completed in 1888, showcasing his signature Post-Impressionist style. The painting depicts a winding pathway through a serene, vibrant landscape, featuring a prominent, ancient Roman structure. The colors are rich and bold, with contrasting shades of green, yellow, and blue, showcasing Gauguin's experimentation with color theory and flat planes of color. The painting's subject, the Alyscamps, a necropolis near Arles in southern France, suggests the cyclical nature of life and death, themes that were often explored by Gauguin in his work.