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Paul Sérusier, Paul Ranson, Henri Gabriel Ibels, Maurice Denis, Félix Edouard Valloton, etc.
Bonnard Pierre
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Maillol Aristide
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Vuillard Edouard
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Gauguin Paul
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Vallotton Félix
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In 1888, following Paul Gauguin’s encouragement, Paul Sérusier did a painting he called Le Talisman. This work marked the beginning of a new movement called Nabis. With great enthusiasm, a group of young artists had chosen that name, Nabis (which means prophets in Hebrew), to define their artistic stance. They were all seeking to abolish the line separating design from high art. They were trying to rediscover the purity at the very source of art after Impressionism, which they now saw as merely exacerbated sensibility or even as being simply superficial. They often expressed a mystic vision of life and as a result were sometimes assimilated to the Symbolists.
Maurice Denis became the theoretician of the movement (Théories 1890-1910). Nabis met in the studio of painter Paul Ranson. La Revue Blanche became the organ, which expressed their ideas and their artistic ideals: to evoke the power of dreaming, the spirituality and intimacy of everyday life.
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Others movements :
ITALIAN NOVECENTO -
RAYONNISM -
NEW FIGURATION -
Index chosen on the movements, important currents and events in the XX 2nd century art
I wanted to give here, with 46 various short introductions, some general elements on the movements or currents of art, groups or exhibitions, which concern the artists whose works are presented in gallery or were it recently. The table, above, will make it possible to visually locate the periods or dates in time.
Each entry is followed of a list of the principal artists belonging to the movement or current. It may be that there is only one simple relationship between such or such artist and the movement in which in theory one locates it (Click on the names in blue to reveal work or works currently in stock).
It will be understood, some movements are represented much than of others in my gallery. The same artist will be often found in several movements (as each one knows it, it was thus).
Although these some introductions, briefly developed, are not addressed to the specialists, they will forgive me the few lapses of memory or choices which would lend to discussion. I hope that these tiny introductions will be however useful to some of you. Michelle Champetier
