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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Nabis [Heb.,=prophets], a group of artists in France active during the 1890s. Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis were the principal theorists of the group. Outstanding members were Édouard Vuillard , Pierre Bonnard , Aristide Maillol , Félix Vallotton , and the lesser known Ker Xavier Roussel. The group held its first exhibition in 1892. Influenced by Gauguin , the Nabis developed a style characterized by flat areas of boldly juxtaposed but muted colors and heavily outlined surface patterns. They were unified by the decorative character of their work and... Read more

Nabis
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... way for the development of abstract art in the early 20th century. The Nabis preached that a work of art is the visual expression of an artist's synthesis ... Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard ; a later member was Aristide Maillol . Nabis Nabis Nabis Read more

Jean Édouard Vuillard
Encyclopedia of World Biography ... of French painters who called themselves Nabis. His best pictures were inspired by the ... Revue blanche, the magazine to which the Nabis contributed illustrations. Vuillard's early ... 233;rieurs (1899). He exhibited with the Nabis between 1891 and 1896. After the turn of ... Read more

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	Parisian Prophets, Brief & Brilliant The Washington Post; 10/17/1993; Sharon Waxman; 1025 words ; ... Establishment art. They called themselves the Nabis - from the Hebrew and Arabic word for ... movement like impressionism. All, for the Nabis, were constrained by the tyranny of realism ... in the first major retrospective on the Nabis in 30 years, much of it gathered from private ... Read more
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