a painted plaster medallion and seven pictures. In this way he firmly allied himself with the new group at the CafT, but his presence there was still not received well at all. Monet in particular did not approve of the membership of just anyone who came along. Gauguin wa attracted to the arguments that raged there just the same and gradually shifted from the open air Impressionism of Pissarro and Monet toward Manet and Degas, who were now more focused on pictorial interest than on recording the transient visual images of the others. Gauguin would then play an important part in the reaction against Impressionism in the 1880s by utilizing the color experiments of Impressionism for the description of an inner vision, a subjective reality, in new pictorial forms. It was in 1883 when Gauguin gave up his job and devoted himself exclusively to painting. He moved the following year from Paris to Rouen in the mistaken belief that he would be able to find cheaper lodgings for his family and a better market for his p
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