保罗·高更法国后印象派画家、雕塑家，与梵高、塞尚并称为后印象派三大巨匠，对现当代绘画的发展有着非常深远的影响。高更生于法国巴黎，他把绘画的本质看作是某种独立于自然之外的东西，当成记忆中经验的一种创造，而不是一般所认为的那种通过反复写生而直接获得的知觉经验中的东西。和大多数同时代的艺术家相比，他的探索在更大程度上受到原始艺术的影响，特别是他对南太平洋热带岛屿的风土人情极为痴迷，这似乎要从他的家族背景和成长经历中追根溯源了。

Paul Gauguin, a French post-Impressionist painter and sculptor, and Van Gogh and Cezanne are known as the three great masters of post-impressionism, which has a very far-reaching impact on the development of modern and contemporary painting. Born in Paris, France, Gauguin regards the essence of painting as something independent of nature, a creation of experience in memory, rather than the perceptual experience directly obtained through repeated sketches. Compared with most contemporary artists, his exploration is more influenced by primitive art, especially his obsession with the local customs of tropical islands in the South Pacific, which seems to be rooted in his family background and growing experience.