Two Approaches to the Exotic——On the Encounters Between Rimbaud and Gauguin by Contemporaries
The two encounters between Rimbaud and Gauguin in Mirbeau's art criticism and Sega-len's aesthetic theory,seemingly unrelated,in fact demonstrate the evolution of Rimbaud's and Gauguin's thinking of the exotic.In 1891,Mirbeau called Gauguin"the Rimbaud of pictorial art"in an art review,suggesting that the two creators crossed the barriers of artistic disciplines.In 1904,Sega-len published The Double Rimbaud and Gauguin at his Last Setting and was inspired by their depar-ture from Europe to develop his"Aesthetic of Diversity".From Mirbeau's commentary,it can be found that the language of poetry and the language of painting are mutually foreign.Rimbaud and Gauguin began exploring the"exotic"territory of arts and art languages and created arts from a trans-artistic perspective,advocating that different subjects would renew themselves in dialogue.From Segalen's devel-opment,this dialogical attitude later led the creators to leave Europe and reflected on the development of European social modernity from an exotic perspective,searching for the mutual benefits of dialogue between two civilizations.Rimbaud and Gauguin's exploration across art and space and time,warns against homogenization,and still has cultural significance nowadays.
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