Secondly, on the level of motif, “Bretonism” shows a new interest in religious and mystical iconography, which again goes back to a primitive state or the “super natural,” which is the opposite to modernity and science. Consequently, Gauguin uses “Bretonism” in order to reject modernity, by conceiving Brittany as feudal, rural, static in time and spiritual, in order worlds the “Other” of the contemporary Paris. Something that I found interesting was the absence of men in Gauguin’s representations of Bretonism. In my opinion, this enhance the idea that women are uncivilized, spiritual and rural by nature; hence, men are the intellectual, educated, civilized counterparts that will always predominate and control women. Consequently, Gauguin’s representation of the primitive becomes progressively
Secondly, on the level of motif, “Bretonism” shows a new interest in religious and mystical iconography, which again goes back to a primitive state or the “super natural,” which is the opposite to modernity and science. Consequently, Gauguin uses “Bretonism” in order to reject modernity, by conceiving Brittany as feudal, rural, static in time and spiritual, in order worlds the “Other” of the contemporary Paris. Something that I found interesting was the absence of men in Gauguin’s representations of Bretonism. In my opinion, this enhance the idea that women are uncivilized, spiritual and rural by nature; hence, men are the intellectual, educated, civilized counterparts that will always predominate and control women. Consequently, Gauguin’s representation of the primitive becomes progressively