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Aline began a collection that would have enormous influence on Gauguin's art, esp the Moche pieces, dating fr 100-800. Many Moche vessels recall ancient Greek pottery in that they r storytelling pieces, painted w/the doings of gods &men, recording heroic battles &the grisly doom of the defeated. The vessels r thicker &clumsier than the Greek, but painted w/great vivacity, &in the same colors: cream &black terracotta

Gauguin’s art smashed the established western canon, ignoring rules handed down over the centuries, trading Renaissance picture-box perspective for multipoint one, distorting scale &privileging decorative line over believable solidity, employing color emotionally rather than realistically, &pioneer the assimilation of indigenous Polynesians into western art