Paul Serusier - Artist Info

About Paul Serusier

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Paul Serrusier
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    A student and monitor at the Academie Julian in the 1880s, Paul Serusier, a post-impressionist painter, became part of a group of artists, Les Nabis, influenced by Paul Gauguin. Most of these artists such as Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Ibels, Paul Ranson and Edouard Vuillard, had been students at the Academie Julian and, taking their group names from the word 'prophets', were dedicated to avant-garde styles of painting. They exhibited together between 1890 and 1896, and after that, pretty much disbanded because they were establishing their own reputations.

    Serusier, with others, had spent time with Gauguin in Brittany at Pont-Aven, an artists' colony that Serusier first visited in 1888.  ...

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