Les Nabis

Les Nabis explored a decorative art in flat plains with a Japanese print graphic approach.

To describe several of his artist friends who were avant-garde painters he coined the term Les Nabis.

After Les Nabis, Denis went on to focus on religious subjects and murals.

He was a mystic artist and a founder of the group who called themselves Les Nabis, after the Hebrew word for prophets.

This demonstrates the dreamlike symbolist ambience and stylistic character of work by the Les Nabis group.

In his 20s he was a part of Les Nabis, a group of young artists committed to creating work of symbolic and spiritual nature.

He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis.

As an eager young student, he had helped form les Nabis, a group of progressive artists inspired by Gauguin and the Symbolists.

In the early 1890s, frequented the circles of Paul Gauguin and of Les Nabis.

In 1888-1889, Les Nabis originated as a rebellious group of young student artists who banded together at the Académie Julian.

It combined the decorative style of Les Nabis, expressively using color and pattern, with classic Impressionist interests in atmosphere and sunlight.

The 19th century is illustrated by a remarkable ensemble from the final period of neoclassicism until the period of Les Nabis, with works by:

Ibels took part in Les Nabis' exhibitions at Le Barc de Boutteville gallery.

More a philosophy than an actual style of art, symbolism in painting influenced the contemporary Art Nouveau style and Les Nabis.

Paul Sérusier galvanized Les Nabis, and provided the name and disseminated the example of Paul Gauguin among them.

Gleizes' own painting in this period shifts from Post-Impressionism towards a fluid, linear style, with close relations to Symbolism and Les Nabis.

There he met Emile Bernard and Paul Sérusier in 1892, shortly afterwards becoming a member of their artist group, Les Nabis.

His geometric simplifications at this time were more akin to Pont-Aven School and Les Nabis principles than to Paul Cézanne.

Initially his work was Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist, but his close association Les Nabis group pushed his style in the direction of Gauguin.

He also associated with the group known as Les Nabis which included Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Vallotton, Marquet and Signac.

He studied at the Académie Julian with Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard and was a member of Les Nabis from its 1889 founding.

At Perros-Guirec in Brittany he met the founder of Les Nabis, Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier and Georges Hanna Sabbagh.

In 1891, he moved to Paris, where he met Paul Gauguin, Meijer de Haan and Paul Sérusier, and frequented the circle of Les Nabis.

In 1888 he enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts, and soon began frequenting the Académie Julian where Maurice Denis and other students formed the group Les Nabis.

Hall Ten holds a rare display of paintings by Les Nabis, a group of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s.