Les (Nabis) is a French art society, 189 1 appeared in Paris. Its main members are students from the Julian Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. The word "Nabi" comes from Hebrew, which means prophet. The basic point of choosing this name is to show the close connection between his beliefs and creative ideas and religion.
1in the summer of 888, 24-year-old Seroussi met Gauguin who was painting there at the Awang Bridge in Brittany, northwest France. Gauguin had just finished painting James and Angels, and the subjective and mysterious symbolism conquered the young painter. Later, he followed Gauguin to sketch in a forest called "Forest of Love". Gauguin pointed out the mystery of color: "What color should the tree be? Do you see more or less red? Good, add red to that part of the photo. Where's the shadow? If only there were a little blue there. Then you put the most beautiful blue on the palette there! " Hearing this, Seroussi drew a small landscape on a cigarette case according to Gauguin's instructions. He took the painting back to the Julian College in Paris where he was studying. Onlookers include bonnard, Vail, Ranson and Wallotton. They suddenly became Gauguin, calling this little painting of Sergio "amulet" and calling the group lucky enough to get this gospel "Nabi", that is, "prophet" in Hebrew. This is the origin of Nabi school.
Nabi School accepted Gauguin's artistic influence and made new explorations and developments: Gauguin's comprehensive theory led to the solemn, simplified and abnormal decorative style of symbolism, that is, transplanting nature into the field of wisdom and imagination. There are two types of so-called deformation: objective deformation based on a pure aesthetic and decorative concept and some technical principles of coloring and composition; Make the painter's own feelings into the subjective deformation of painting performance.
The Nabi School started with the Amulet by Cerussier and ended with the Salute to Cezanne by Dennis. This shows that the Nabi school's own value lies only in clarifying Cezanne and Gauguin's visual way. This is an observation method that puts more emphasis on self-observation.
Nabi faction was dissolved on 1899, and then Nabi faction split into separatist faction, comprehensive faction and neo-traditional faction.
This school flaunts the innovation of painting art, widely absorbs the beneficial factors of P Gauguin, P Cezanne and Japanese Ukiyo-e painting art, advocates "rearranging" nature in the field of rationality and sensibility, emphasizes the creation of poetic reality, pursues the decorative effect of plane and the expression of symbolic meaning, and pays attention to the recognition of tone and the law of simple deformation. This is a short-term art movement, and the main participants are French painters and sculptors.
Deni, the main theorist of Nabi school, summed up the characteristics of Nabi school into two deformation theories: "objective deformation is based on pure aesthetics, decorative concepts, and technical elements of color and composition;" Then there is subjective deformation, so that the painter's personal inspiration can be brought into play. "