Vision after the Sermon
The artist
Paul Gauguin, a French painter known for bold colors and imaginative, dreamlike scenes.
What you see
Women in white bonnets bow their heads in prayer while, in their imagination, two figures wrestle on a bright red field.
The story
Gauguin painted it in 1888 in Brittany, France, showing villagers picturing a Bible story after hearing it in church.
The style
He divided the picture with a bold tree trunk and used a shocking red ground instead of a real grassy color.
Look closer
The bright red field is not real; it shows the vision inside the women's minds, separate from the ordinary world.
Where to see it
The painting is kept at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Fun fact
This was one of the first paintings to mix a real scene and an imagined dream in the very same picture.