1893
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape is a 1893 by Paul Sérusier, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a simple French landscape with rolling green hills under a bright sky. The colors look almost unnatural—more like a child’s crayon box than real grass or sky. The artist, Sérusier, painted it after meeting Gauguin in Brittany. Gauguin taught him to use flat colors and bold shapes instead of realistic detail. This little canvas became the start of a new group called the Nabis. It’s hanging in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Twenty-four-year-old Paul Sérusier met Paul Gauguin in Brittany at the artists' colony in Pont- Aven. Sérusier enthusiastically embraced the older artist's flat, simplified forms and bold colors. He became one of Gauguin's closest disciples, promoting his aesthetic among a group of Parisian artists who became known as the Nabis-the Hebrew word for "prophets"-because they predicted a new era in art. Sérusier was primarily interested in creating decorative surfaces which juxtaposed flat planes of opposing colors. Sérusier made only a few prints during his career, but the bold, primitive-looking…
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Paul Sérusier was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism.
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