The girl in the purple dress has her sleeves partially rolled up and is fiddling with some sort of grass, seemingly weaving it. There is quite a distinctive texture about this piece. The artist’s brush strokes are visible throughout the whole painting, especially on the left woman’s arm and in the background. This gives the painting an added dimension, it makes all the details seem to stand out more. Some more details that really stand are the sheen in the women's’ hair and the bows tying their hair back; the shine on their hair suggests that the moon is out above them and the bows give them an even more child-like appearance. Today the painting is the located in Paris, France at the Musee d’Orsay museum. Gauguin did several other similar paintings including “Two Women of Tahiti” and “Two Tahitian Women”, the first being the most similar. Overall the painting can be described as very calm and timeless; this piece has been around for more than a hundred years and is a
The girl in the purple dress has her sleeves partially rolled up and is fiddling with some sort of grass, seemingly weaving it. There is quite a distinctive texture about this piece. The artist’s brush strokes are visible throughout the whole painting, especially on the left woman’s arm and in the background. This gives the painting an added dimension, it makes all the details seem to stand out more. Some more details that really stand are the sheen in the women's’ hair and the bows tying their hair back; the shine on their hair suggests that the moon is out above them and the bows give them an even more child-like appearance. Today the painting is the located in Paris, France at the Musee d’Orsay museum. Gauguin did several other similar paintings including “Two Women of Tahiti” and “Two Tahitian Women”, the first being the most similar. Overall the painting can be described as very calm and timeless; this piece has been around for more than a hundred years and is a