✨Last night there was the famous #METGala in New York!✨

Our way of celebrating is to talk about one of the most original works in the Metropolitan Museum.

💫“la Orana Maria”💫 by Paul #Gauguin – 1891

This painting is one of the first made on the Polynesian island of Tahiti, where the painter will spend a lot of time. It represents the theme of the #Madonna with the child in a tropical version, dressed in clothes and local colors but which keep the halo around the head.

☞ Do you know…

‣ What we have highlighted in the background, with our #bright red, are the wings of an #angel because he is the element that guides interpretation towards a Christian meaning.

‣ In the foreground we can see #banana helmets on a table, the layout is that of a classic still life yet Gauguin, with the choice of a typical fruit, transfers to it a Tahitian connotation. It is these fusions, between western and eastern culture, that make the work unique in its kind.

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⇒ Date: 1891

⇒ Material: Oil painting

⇒ Dimensions: 1,14 m x 88 cm

⇒ Site: New York, U.S. – Metropolitan Museum of Art