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...... While one can certainly see the impressionist influence in Gauguins work, his travels probably influenced his work more than his early exposure to impressionist masters. While traveling to the islands, Gauguin interacted with immigrant Indians, and adopted Indian style and symbolism for much of his art work. In fact, as he grew older, Gauguin began to be bored by impressionism, a fact that is reflected in his later work. He found himself interested in African and Asian art, and began to incorporate African and Asian elements into his own work. One can see the influence that Japanese art had on Gauguin when viewing his later works. Cloisonnism, a style that derived its name from Emile Bernards cloissone enameling technique, was characterized by bold and flat colors separated by dark contours. Gauguins most well-recognized Cloisonnist work was The Yellow Christ. In the Yellow Christ, Gauguin depicts a yellow Christ on the cross against a yellow background the same color as Christ. The colors used in the Christ are not realistic; he is a bright, unnatural yellow. However, the Christ seems both more vibrant and more alive than the figures Gauguin depicted in his earlier Impressionist works, despite the fact that

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