Painted in 1896 during Gauguin's second stay in Tahiti, "No te aha oe riri? (Why Are You Angry?)" depicts a group of Tahitian women and children in a domestic scene, its Tahitian-language title — like many of Gauguin's titles from this period — posing an enigmatic question rather than simply describing the image. The painting reflects Gauguin's mature Tahitian style, combining flattened, boldly outlined forms with a rich, non-naturalistic palette drawn partly from memory and imagination. Now in the Art Institute of Chicago, it exemplifies the deliberately ambiguous, symbolic narratives of his island paintings.
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