Nabis French Art Association
It started in 1888.
In Hebrew, Nabis meant the prophet or mystical revelation.
Taking this name aimed to show the close relationship of belief, creation
thought and religion.
This was a very short art movement and its main...
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Nabis French Art Association
It started in 1888.
In Hebrew, Nabis meant the prophet or mystical revelation.
Taking this name aimed to show the close relationship of belief, creation
thought and religion.
This was a very short art movement and its main
participants were French painters and sculptors.
The main theorist was Deny
who grouped the feature of Nabis into two deformation theories: "objective
deformation, which is based on the concept of pure aesthetics, decoration, as
well as the technical elements of the color and composition; then subjective
deformation, it makes his personal inspiration play".
There were a group of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace
for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s.
Initially a group of
friends interested in contemporary art and literature, most of them studied at
the private art school of Rodolphe Julianin Paris in the late 1880s.
In 1890,
they began to successfully participate in public exhibitions, while mo
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