Why did Paul Gauguin move from Pont-Aven to Le Pouldu?

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Self-portrait painting by Paul Gauguin showing the artist with a mustache, yellow halo, and stylized plants against a vivid orange background with green and red fruit. — Paul Gauguin Self-portrait by Paul Gauguin, oil on wood, 1889; in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 79.2 × 51.3 cm.

Paul Gauguin moved from Pont-Aven to the remote village of Le Pouldu because he felt that Pont-Aven had become spoiled by the presence of tourists.1

Seeking a more isolated environment to pursue his "primitive" ideal and raw expression, Gauguin relocated to Le Pouldu to focus on his work without the distractions of contemporary Western civilization, which he increasingly viewed as corrupt.1