LES NABİS

Pierre BONNARD

   Les Nabis were a Parisian group of Post-Impressionist artists and illustrators who became very influential in the field of graphic art. Their emphasis on design was shared by the parallel Art Nouveau movement. Both groups also had close ties to the Symbolists.
  The main representatives of Les Nabis were Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Ker Xavier Roussel, Felix Vallotton, and Edouard Vuillard.

Edouard VUILLARD

SYMBOLISM

Edvard MUNCH

   Symbolism originated in France, and was part of a 19th-century movement in which art became infused with mysticism. French Symbolism was both a continuation of the Romantic tradition and a reaction to the realistic approach of impressionism. It served as a catalyst in the outgrowth of the darker sides of Romanticism and toward abstraction.
   Symbolism is an important element of most religious arts and reading symbols plays a main role in psychoanalysis. Thus, the Symbolist painters used these symbols from mythology and dream imagery for a visual language of the soul.

Odilon REDON

   Symbolism was more an international ideological trend. Symbolists believed that art should cover more absolute truths which could only be accessed indirectly. Thus, they painted scenes from nature, human activities, and all other real world phenomena in a highly metaphorical and suggestive manner. 
   Odilon Redon, Paul Gaugin, Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel, Leon Bakst, James Ensor, Jean Delville,  Edvard Munch are some of the main symbolist artists.

NEO-IMPRESSIONISM

     Neo-Impressionism (a.k.a. Divisionism or Pointillism)( From 1884 until 1935 -the end of Signac's life)  is a movement and a style which is a subdivision of the larger avant-garde movement called Post-Impressionism.

     Neo-Impressionism organized the system of applying separate colors to the surface so that the eye mixed the colors rather than the artist on his or her palette. The theory of chromatic integration claims that these independent tiny touches of color can be mixed optically to reach better color quality.

     The Neo-Impressionist surface seems to vibrate with a glow that radiates from the tiny dots that are packed together to create a specific hue. The painted surfaces are especially luminescent. Unlike the impressionist pictures, these were painted in the studio.

George SEURAT

     The best known artists of this movement are Paul Signac, Georges Seurat, Camille Pisarro, Henry Edmond Cross, George Lemmen, Theo van Rysselberghe, Jan Toorop, Maximillen Luce, Albert Dubois-pillet.

Paul SIGNAC

IMPRESSIONISM

     A French 19th century art movement which marked an important break from tradition in European painting. The Impressionists integrated new scientific research into the physics of colour to achieve a more exact representation of colour and tone.
     The sudden change in the look of these paintings was brought about by a change in methodology: applying paint in small touches of pure colour rather than broader strokes, and painting out of doors to catch a particular fleeting impression of colour and light. The result was to stress the artist's perception of the subject matter as much as the subject itself.
     Impressionist art is a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it. They paint the pictures with a lot of color and most of their pictures consist of outdoor scenes. In addition, their pictures are very bright and vibrant. The artists like to capture their images without detail but with bold colors. Some of the greatest impressionist artists were Edouard Manet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Pierre Auguste Renoir.

Claude MONET

Alfred SISLEY