You're Vincent, Theo's brother? I'm Paul Gauguin.

你是文森特，提奥的哥哥？我是保罗·高更。

What was Paul Gauguin searching for when he traveled to Tahiti?

高更去大溪地旅行时在寻找什么？

This is probably most obvious when looking at the life and work of the French artist Paul Gauguin.

看看法国艺术家保罗·高更 (Paul Gauguin) 的生平和作品，这一点可能最为明显。

His name was Paul Gauguin, a former city trader who had lost it all in the financial crash of 1882.

他的名字是保罗·高更 曾是一名在1882年经济危机中 倾家荡产的证券交易员。

Italian police found the Paul Gauguin still-life in a sicilian autoworker's kitchen. He says he bought it at an auction 40 years ago.

意大利警方在西西里岛的一名汽车工人的厨房里发现了保罗·高更的这幅静物画作。主人称，他于40年前在拍卖行拍下此幅画作。

When he persuaded Paul Gauguin to join him in Arles, van Gogh believed that they would inspire each other's work. It was a tragic delusion.

在阿勒斯时，梵高劝说保罗·高更加入他的创作队伍，他相信他们俩能激发彼此的灵感，有所裨益。但这却是个悲剧的幻想。

In Arles, still dreaming of a colony of artists living freely in the countryside, he invited Paul Gauguin to join him in the iconic " Yellow House."

在阿尔勒，他仍梦想着艺术家们在乡村自由生活，他邀请保罗·高更和他一起创作了标志性的《黄房子》。

Like the impressionists, Vincent had always insisted on working directly from nature, but a few months earlier, Paul Gauguin had tried to persuade him to paint from his imagination.

和印象派画家一样，文森特一直坚持直接取材于自然，但几个月前，保罗·高更曾试图说服他根据自己的想象作画。

Expressionist art grew out of the work of Symbolist artists such as Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch and Vincent Van Gogh.

表现主义艺术源于保罗·高更、爱德华·蒙克和文森特·梵高等象征主义艺术家的作品。

After a particularly difficult period living with Paul Gauguin, he suffered an attack of acute mania, culminating in hallucinations and hearing voices, which led to him cutting off his own ear.

在和保罗·高更一起生活了一段特别艰难的时期后，他患上了急性狂躁症，最终出现幻觉和幻听，这导致他割掉了自己的耳朵。

It may be asked why, if I turned Paul Gauguin into an Englishman, I could not do the same with the persons of this book.

有人可能会问， 如果我把保罗·高更变成一个英国人， 为什么我不能对本书中的人物做同样的事情。

In that I took a famous painter, Paul Gauguin, and, using the novelist's privilege, devised a number of incidents to illustrate the character I had created on the suggestions afforded me by the scanty facts I knew about the French artist.

在那里，我找了一位著名的画家保罗·高更， 并利用小说家的特权， 设计了一些事件来说明我根据我对这位法国艺术家的了解所提供的建议所创造的人物。