Curated by Paul Vedros

Paul Gauguin, Still Life with Fruit, 1888

Welcome back to Pomiculture, fellow frugivores! Comparing Paul Gauguin's Still Life with Fruit with Music and Fruit, reveals the many possible creative uses artists are capable of when depicting fruit in their paintings. Paul Gauguin was noted for the paintings depicting his travels to various Caribbean islands. These escapes from European life contributed to his disillusion of consumer culture, which influenced this painting. Gauguin uses fruit to convey excessive wealth in Europe compared to the islands, which is reinforced by the presence of a teapot and onlooking girl. Gauguin essentially used fruit to express his views on global economic inequality. That's the power of Pomiculture.