The bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts help Paul Gauguin paintings achieve broad success in the late 19th century. This paved the way for the Primitivism art movement. Paul Gauguin was a famed French artist who didn't have any formal art training. Instead, he simply followed his own vision, abandoning artistic conventions.

Paul quickly became serious with painting, which started as a hobby. One of his works was exhibited in an important Paris art show in 1876. His work appeared among the works of Pissarro, Degas and Monet in an Impressionist exhibition in 1879. One of the most famous of Paul Gauguin paintings, the Vision of the Sermon was created in 1888.

In 1891, Paul moved to Tahiti and settled among the native people. He combined the native culture with his own to create new, innovative art works. In 1893, he returned to France and showed off some of his Tahitian pieces to mixed responses. He returned to French Polynesia where he created one of the later masterpieces among Paul Gauguin paintings, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, a depiction of the human life cycle.

It did not take long for Tiziano Vecellio to be considered as the leading painter of Venice. It took only his first major public commission to do that. His early training under Giorgione was responsible for Titian paintings to have that tonal approach to them. Likewise, this training was the culprit for the atmospheric and evocative style to his landscape artworks.

The beauty of nature was celebrated in the pastoral landscapes among Titian paintings in combination with love and music. Among these pastoral landscape paintings were Landscape with Goat and Two Satyrs in a Landscape. The latter was a lush landscape featuring mythological figures. The raw beauty of the landscape was contrasted with a carefully balanced arrangement of the figures.

What was remarkable in the portraits among Titian paintings is not only their suggestion of the status and importance of their subjects but their inclusion of a psychological dimension to them. Sensitivity in the hands and face as well as monumentality of presence are among the aspects that connote status and importance. The instigation of a melancholic or dreamy mood in the subjects exposes the mental dimension.