"""By the time Gauguin arrived in the late 1800s, Tahiti had been """"thoroughly Christianized and colonized"""" by the French, says National Gallery curator Mary Morton. Women didn't walk around half-nude — but Gauguin painted them that way anyway. Above, an 1899 depiction of Two Tahitian Women."""
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