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Maurice Denis ( French: [dəni]; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) [1] was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art, [2] he is associated with Les Nabis, symbolism, and later neo-classicism. [3]
Maurice Denis is perhaps unique amongst avant-garde French painters of the late-nineteenth century in combining a strong commitment to formal and stylistic innovation with an equally profound sense of the significance of tradition: in art, culture, and, perhaps above all else, religion.
Maurice Denis (French: [dəni]; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist and writer, who was an important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art.
Maurice Denis was a French painter, one of the leading artists and theoreticians of the Symbolist movement. Denis studied at the Académie Julian (1888) under Jules Lefebvre and at the École des Beaux-Arts. Reacting against the naturalistic tendencies of Impressionism, Denis fell under the influence.
Maurice Denis was a French painter known for his involvement in the Nabis group. His richly colored paintings employed contrasting warm and cool colors to depict landscapes, portraits, and mythic or religious scenes, such as Easter Mystery (1891).
Maurice Denis. Bather at the Edge of a Lake (Baigneuse au bord. d'un lac) from the portfolio The Proof (L'Epreuve), no. 1. (1894)
Oct 31, 2006 · Even today Maurice Denis' ( 1870-1943) place in the history of art remains unspecified. Known as the "Nabi of the beautiful icons", he is celebrated alongside Vuillard and Bonnard as one of the most important Nabi painters, a founder of the movement and its brilliant theoretician.
