It became known among the Nabis as Le Talisman. Painted under the guidance of Paul Gauguin, it showed a landscape reduced to flat areas of colour straight from the tube and mixed only with white. The synthesis of ideas that they were seeking came in the form of a small painting of a woodland pond that Sérusier had brought back from Pont-Aven in 1888. They called themselves Nabis, from the Hebrew word for prophet. They were joined by Ker-Xavier Roussel and Edouard Vuillard, alumni of the Académie-Julian who were currently studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Gérôme. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 1994, p. Barruel, "The New Theories", Maurice Denis, exh. "It was the materialism of our teachers," Denis later wrote, "that led us, in reaction, to seek beauty outside nature, nature through science and art in theories" (quoted in T. 897.0025.Īmong the students at the Académie Julian in Paris were a group of young men, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Henri Ibels, Paul Ranson and Paul Sérusier, who had tired of the academic realism that was being taught there. Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl will include this work in their forthcoming Maurice Denis catalogue raisonné, under the no.
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