vision after the sermon paul gauguinPaul Gauguin's Vision after the sermon is a daring post impressionist painting in which the sacred and the profane coexist in a striking way. The lower section shows women at prayer, immersed in a silent spirituality. Above, there is a vibrant vision of Jacob wrestling with an angel, an explosion of intense orange where the dreamlike and the divine mingle. As a genre scene, this painting bears witness to Gauguin's synthesism, with its use of stylised