Paul Serusier: 114 Masterpieces

Paul Serusier was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabi movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism. He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis. They originated as a rebellious group of young student artists [...]
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Paul Serusier was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabi movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism. He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis. They originated as a rebellious group of young student artists who banded together at the Academie Julian. Paul Serusier galvanized Les Nabis, and provided the name and disseminated the example of Paul Gauguin among them. Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis became the best known of the group. By the mid-1890s, the Nabis-most of whom remained friends-had developed individual styles, and Serusier himself had become deeply involved with theosophy. He was influenced by the concepts of religious symbolism and geometry and sacred proportions in composition. Serusier continued to develop his philosophy and to paint and sketch according to it. During this time he crystallized the principles he laid out in his ABC de la peinture (1921).