"It should be remembered that before a picture is a war horse, a naked woman or any anecdote, it is essentially an ordinary surface covered with colours arranged in a certain way". At the end of the 19th century, this was an outrageous statement by a young painter only twenty years old and a rejection of the conventional painting of art academies.
This young man, living in a suburb of Paris, was called Maurice Denis and was influenced early on by Gauguin and his students. Their hallmark was the use of pure, radiant colors and a clear formal language. Around 1888 he founded the group "Les Nabis" with like-minded, rebellious artists such as Pierre Bonnard and Paul Sérusier. He was regarded as the theoretician of the group and published various articles on his view of art in important contemporary publications. As far as non-European influences are concerned, the Nabis were particularly interested in Japanese woodblock prints.
A typical picture of him is the painting "Sunspots on the Terrace", which shows a female figure on a surface surrounded by trees. With its strongly reduced forms, the figure is hardly recognizable as a woman, and almost exclusively held in complementary colors, this painting in its radical reduction already refers to the coming avant-garde of the 20th century.
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 - (MeisterDrucke-130528).jpg "The Green Christ, 1890 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Procession under the Trees, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Bathers at Dusk, 1912 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nude with a Bouquet of Violets by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Calvary or, The Road to Calvary, 1889 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel VI. Psyche")
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.jpg "Bathing at the Pardon of Sainte-Anne-la-Palud, 1905 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Sleeper in the Magical Wood, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Magnificat, 1909 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Green Beach, Perros-Guirec, 1909 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Marthe with a Rose, 1909 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Fiesole, 1931 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Balcony to Silence by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Poster Advertising the Newspaper „La Dépêche de Toulouse“, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Homage to Cézanne, 1900. by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Bacchus and Ariadne, 1907 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Orange Christ by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Cagnes, 1910 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, 1908 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nude at Dusk, ca. 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Beach Scene with a Boat by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1660135).jpg "Shuttlecock by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Love: Twelve Lithographs in Color: Cover by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Kneeling Nude by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Small Grey Nude by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Springtime, c.1894-99 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Polyphemus by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Andre Gide by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "These are Easy and Chaste Attitudes by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "On the Pale Silver Sofa by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Eva Meurier in a Green Dress by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Orpheus and Eurydice, 1910 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Visitation by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "September Evening by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Sun-Dial by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Summer Day on the Island of Noirmoutier by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nude Hairdressing by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-409835).jpg "Blossoming Trees by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Evening high tide at Trestrignel, c.1910 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Girls Receiving First Communion by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Muses, 1893 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Our Souls in Slow Gestures by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "On the Beach, 1912 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Untitled by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Moses Saved from the Water by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Muses, 1893 by Maurice Denis")
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_Peinture_de_-_(MeisterDrucke-1324939).jpg "The Story of Psyche (Panel 1: Eros Struck by the Beauty of Psyche) by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Annunciation, 1913 by Maurice Denis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-124351).jpg "Sun-Spots on the Terrace by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "April, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Fountain at the Villa Medici by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Illustration with Standing Naked Woman between Trees by a Lake for the Poem Petit Air by Stéphane Mallarmé by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1426193).jpg "Offering at Calvary by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Big Beach by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Raising of Lazarus, 1919 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "On the Beach with a Red Hat by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "September evening: Young women and children on the beach at the end of the day, mother breastfeeds, others play snowshoes, 1911 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Bathers by Maurice Denis")
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_1911_(huile_sur_toile_-_(MeisterDrucke-947279).jpg "Evening of September by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1030109).jpg "Steering Wheel Set (Detail) by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Bathers by Maurice Denis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-139636).jpg "Bernadette and her Mother, c.1900 by Maurice Denis")
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 1899 (charcoal) - (MeisterDrucke-131316).jpg "Odilon Redon by Maurice Denis")
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 c1895 - (MeisterDrucke-124691).jpg "Maternity with a White Dress (Jean-Paul) c.1895 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Holy Women at the Tomb, 1894 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Torso of a Woman by Maurice Denis")
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_20th_century_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1003175).jpg "Bathers at Perros Guirec by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Ball Game on the Beach, 1922 by Maurice Denis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-143216).jpg "Sketch of the Virgin at school, 1903 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Baigneuses à Perros-Guirec, ca. 1909-1912 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Baigneuses, plage du Pouldu by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Snack under the Chestnut Trees by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Ocean Coast by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Cowgirl by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Summer Day on the Island of Noirmoutier by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Attitudes are Easy and Chaste by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Mother and Child by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Maternity, 1895 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Epona, Goddess of Herds by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Spring by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Mellerio Family by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Portrait of Yvonne Lerolle by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Steering Wheel Set by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Figures in Spring Landscape Sacred Grove by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1421478).jpg "The Victory of 1918 by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1421388).jpg "The Victory of 1918 (detail) by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1544437).jpg "Girl with a Doll (Thérèse Watillaux) by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "April by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Sleeping Woman, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel I. Eros Is Struck by Psyche")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-124471).jpg "Maternity at Pouldu, Evening by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Wave by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Seashore by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1061627).jpg "Ocean Coast by Maurice Denis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-121451).jpg "Aristide Maillol, 1902 by Maurice Denis")
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_1900_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1000400).jpg "Game of steering wheel (detail) by Maurice Denis")
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 with his Model c1904 - (MeisterDrucke-138293).jpg "Edgar Degas with His Model by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-943314).jpg "Portrait of Madame Ranson at the Cat by Maurice Denis")
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