"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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.jpg "Procession under the Trees, 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Marthe with a Rose, 1909 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Bathing at the Pardon of Sainte-Anne-la-Palud, 1905 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Calvary or, The Road to Calvary, 1889 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Magnificat by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Green Beach, Perros Guirec by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Fiesole, 1931 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nude with a Bouquet of Violets by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Bathers at Dusk, 1912 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "La Dormeuse au Bois Magique by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel VI. Psyche")
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.jpg "Bacchus and Ariadne, 1907 by Maurice Denis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-143216).jpg "Sketch of the Virgin at School by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Muses, 1893 by Maurice Denis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-124471).jpg "Maternity at Pouldu, Evening by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Beach Scene with a Boat by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel I. Eros Is Struck by Psyche")
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.jpg "On the Pale Silver Sofa, Plate Ten from Love by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Moses Saved from the Water by Maurice Denis")
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 1906 - (MeisterDrucke-136052).jpg "Portrait of Edgar Degas by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "September Evening by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nude at Dusk, ca 1892 by Maurice Denis")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-124351).jpg "Sun-Spots on the Terrace by Maurice Denis")
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_from_Lo_-_(MeisterDrucke-1339673).jpg "She was More Beautiful than Dreams from Love: Twelve Lithographs in Color by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Maternity at the Window, 1901 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "She Was More Beautiful Than Dreams, Plate Seven from Love by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Marthe Denis and the Children on the Balcony by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, c.1910 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Big Beach by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mademoiselle Yvonne Lerolle in Three Poses by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-409835).jpg "Blossoming Trees by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1660160).jpg "The Orchard of the Virgins by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nymphs, or The Seine at Port-Marly, c.1890 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Crown by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nude Hairdressing by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Andre Gide by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Virgin with a Kiss by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marthe Denis, the artist")
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.jpg "The Annunciation by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Polyphemus by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Still Life with Apples by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "A Mother Washing Her Child, 1895 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Homage to Cezanne by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Orchard of the Wise Virgins, 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 "April The Anemones by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Solitude of Christ by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Small Grey Nude by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Tree of Life by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Illustration with Naked Female Saint Standing by Tree in Poetry Book by Paul Verlaine by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Visitation in the Town of Montrouge 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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.jpg "Intimacy or Seamstress at the Window, 1903 by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1660168).jpg "Self-Portrait by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "On the Beach with a Red Hat by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Ladder in the Foliage by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Illustration for a Poem from the Poetry Collection Sagesse by Paul Verlaine by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Wedding Procession, c.1892-93 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Screen with doves (detail of the right hand panels) by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Princess in the Tower, c.1900 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Child in the Doorway by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-379370).jpg "Let the First Idea Come to Me by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Musicians by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1460054).jpg "Morning Mass (Nuns in Prayer) by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Copper Cauldron with Hydrangeas, 1916 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Bathers by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Portrait of Raphael Lemeunier, 1889 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Figures in a Spring Landscape, 1897 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "But It is the Heart That Beats Too Quickly, Plate Twelve from Love by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Nude by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1653738).jpg "The Golden Age by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Raising of Lazarus by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Portrait of Martha with Open Hands by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Dominique on the Isard by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1663425).jpg "Woman at the Brook, Sketch for a Stained Glass Window by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Madame Ranson and Her Cat by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Ball Game on the Beach, 1922 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Denis Grandparents by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Annunciation at Fiesole by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Poster Advertising")
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.jpg "Noelle")
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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 "Portrait of Marthe with a White Veil by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Story of Psyche, Panel VII. Cupid Carrying Psyche Up to Heaven by Maurice Denis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1660152).jpg "The Women Find Jesus")
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.jpg "Procession of the Standards to La Clarte by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "The Mellerio Family by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Women Sitting on the Terrace also called September Evening by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Kneeling Nude by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Maternity, Jean-Paul Nude by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Figures in a Spring Landscape Sacred Grove, 1897 by Maurice Denis")
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.jpg "Evening near Binic by Maurice Denis")
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_Peinture_de_Maurice_Denis_-_(MeisterDrucke-1422411).jpg "The Story of Psyche (Panel 4: The Vengeance of Venus) by Maurice Denis")
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