" D'où nous venons / Que sommes nous / Où allons nous" . Where we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? is a 1897 painting by Paul Gauguin Oil on canvas (141 x 376 cm). Today the work is preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
When Gauguin painted this picture was in a very troubled period of its existence, seriously ill, artistically isolated and shocked by the death of his daughter Aline, so groped by suicide.
extreme emotional situations in the birth of the masterpieces of human genius. A 'work for the large scale and, particularly, its symbolic meaning.
A work in which the author incorporates the synthesis of all his troubles that occur as a feeling of deep uneasiness, of anxiety, loss and tormenting his spirit: despair.
"Despair is a sickness in the spirit, the ego, and so may be threefold:
desperately not to be conscious of having an ego;
desperately not wanting to be himself;
desperately wanted to be himself. "
(from" The Sickness Unto Death "by Kierkegaard)
Gauguin with the suicide attempt is in the process," not wanting desperately be himself "
With the implementation of the framework, that: " desperately wanting to be himself."
The picture is well known, therefore only two caveats.
The reading of the picture is from right to left, and the theme of the framework is the life cycle.
Right: "D'où nous venons" the child is born amid the indifference of the woman who turns his back.
Center: " Que sommes nous" represented by the figure of the young man with his hands up and pick fruit from a tree. An attitude typical: Adam and the Garden of Eden?
left: "Où allons nous " death with the figure of woman in dark, in a pose, her head in her hands, similar to paint, URL, Munch, which is the painter of trouble.
All on a background disturbing: an atmosphere of angst, as in the films of Ingmar Bergman "The Seventh Seal."
Responding to questions that arise Gauguin so mandatory to write on the painting itself?
are three possible answers: atheism, creationism and agnosticism.
where we come from? evolution from random
What are we? Unit biological thinking
Where are we going? towards death and nothingness.
Where we come from? by a Creator
What are we? creatures of spirit and matter
Where are we going? to the Creator
Where we come from? do not know
What are we? do not know
Where are we going? do not know.
Atheism claims to be based on a scientific path of evolution, rational, and he falls into dogmatism by excluding a priori the explanation that creationism and evolution is totally lacking from the beginning: a random fluctuation of the void gave rise to the matter or a bad interpretation of quantum mechanics. So "everything" would be born spontaneously and by chance, from nothing.
Creationism, assuming the existence of a Creator, greatly simplifies the explanation of 'existence of the "whole", but it is a dogma, there is evidence of God, if not the perception itself. Perception itself is a personal basis and therefore is not absolute proof.
Agnosticism is not a position: we consider lack the arguments of atheists and believers, but is unable to give definite answers. The
refrain from taking a position may seem like an escape, existential indifference, but it is not: it is the right approach to the problem, an approach aware of the difficulties, a careful analysis of every possible argument that leads to true knowledge. Certainly it is the path more difficult for our ego. The ego that
transvaluation has all the artificial values \u200b\u200bconstructed by man over the millennia and, therefore, free from dogmatism, it's just the sight of all. A loneliness that, while it exalts man as an individual in isolation from social magma, has its counterpart in the risk of eternal doubt. Only the ego stronger, more aware of how steep this existential journey, it does not fall into anguish that leads to deadly disease: despair.
The despair of having to wait for the right income rationem to learn, perhaps more.
T ITLE: Indelible Baghdad 
