Paul Sérusier

Paul Sérusier (9 November 1864 – 7 October 1927) was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabi movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism.

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Education

Sérusier was born in Paris. He studied at the Académie Julian and was a monitor there in the mid 1880s.[1] In the summer of 1888 he travelled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists centered there around Paul Gauguin.[2] While at the Pont-Aven artist's colony he painted a picture that became known as The Talisman, under the close supervision of Gauguin. The picture was an extreme exercise in Cloisonnism that approximated to pure abstraction.[3] He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis. Sérusier along with Paul Gauguin named the group. Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis became the best known of the group, but at the time they were somewhat peripheral to the core group.

He later taught at the Académie Ranson and published his book ABC de la peinture in 1921. He died at Morlaix.

Writings

- Second edition, accompanied by a study on Sérusier's life and work, by Maurice Denis, Librairie Floury, Paris 1942
- Third edition, accompanied by an unpublished correspondence, collected by Madame P. Sérusier and annotated by Mademoiselle H. Boutaric, Librairie Floury, Paris 1950

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Notes

  1. ^ Arthur Wesley Dow, Joseph Masheck, Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers University of California Press, 1998. ISBN 0520207491
  2. ^ Bennard B Perlman: Robert Henri: His Life and Art, page 17. Courier Dover Publications, 1991. ISBN 0486267229
  3. ^ Harrison, Wood, Gaiger (editors): Art in Theory, 1815 – 1900 page 1020. Balckwell, 1998. ISBN 0631200665.

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