landscape with blue trunks paul gauguinIn Landscape with Blue Trunks, Gauguin takes us into an exotic world where colours take on an uncommonly expressive dimension. The landscape is characterised by unreal blue tree trunks, standing like mystical sentinels in the midst of lush green vegetation. This chromatic boldness, characteristic of post impressionism, of which Gauguin was a precursor, creates a landscape that is both familiar and foreign, underlining the singularity of his Tahitian