[Joe 6-pack]

I have a BA in Art History and concur with your assessment. This is by far one of the weakest and least dynamic work of Gauguin’s that I’ve ever seen. Granted, I have little interest in much 19th century stuff after the Pre-Raphaelites to begin with, but at least a lot of late-impressionist to post-impressionist stuff is visually interesting (especially Seurat :-). This looks like the canvas was dropped in a mud puddle.

[RegulatorCountry]

I worked in printing for years and never ceased to be amazed at the technical proficiency of Seurat's work, La Grande Jatte, etcetera. The softness and the glowing colors achieved via pointillism, fine dots of paint rather like the hexachrome printing of today.