... Maudit" represented artists who were breaking away from traditional concepts of realism, " Darggin the ball and chain of our denied masterpieces!" and " Lets wander by night, alone without lamb or candle." Gauguin was also influenced by Bernard. The two artists spent a month painting together and Bernard introduced him to the ideas of painting more like children, "Naive Art." This concept must have helped cement ... in Gauguin's mind for the need to live as a "sauvage," ",a peasent" as he could return to ... of primitivism is evident in his work even before he left France. In "Jacob wre...

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... offerings of a live victim (usually a criminal). Around the year 600, the priest Romanus arrived in Rouen and promised to rid of the dragon if the residents agreed to build a church and be baptized. With the annual convict and the items needed for exorcism (bell, book, candle, and cross), Romanus subdued the dragon by making the sign of the cross and led the now docile beast back to town on a leash ... made from his priest's robe. The dragon was burned at the stake, but the head and the neck, well tempered by the heat of the dragon's fiery breath, would not burn ... . The remnants were ...

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