Edouard Dujardin
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Edouard Dujardin (1861 - 1949) was a French art critic.
In 1885 Dujardin and Téodor de Wyzewa[1] launched the Révue Wagnérienne, following in the footsteps of Félix Fénéon and his Révue Indépendante which had started appearing the year before. In 1886 Dujardin and Fénéon joined forces under the banner of a new improved Révue Indépendante. One of the innovations at this time was that the Révue started holding small exhibitions in its rooms.
Dujardin had been friends at school with Louis Anquetin. Anquetin and Émile Bernard had both been experimenting with simplifications based on ideas derived from Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, Épinal prints, and stained glass. In February 1888 Dujardin organized a exhibition for Anquetin in the Révue's rooms, which was then shown at the Salon des Indépendantes the following month. In a review of these paintings Dujardin coined the term cloisonniste. The article Le Cloisonnisme was published in the March 1888 issue of La Révue Indépendante.
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- ^ 'Téodor de Wyzewa' was the adopted name of Polish-born Theodore Etienne Wyzewski, Harrison C, Wood P., Gaiger J. Art in Theory 1815-1900 Blackwell, ISBN 0631200665 page 1003.
