Maurice denis

Maurice Denis The Eternal Spring Ehibition Giverny Museum 2012

***************** All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere. –Maurice Denis ***************** In my opinion, sincerity is a huge part of how an artist’s work comes across, pe…

Dancing around the Large Trees at Perros Maurice Denis - 1914

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Oil on Canvas; 40.5 x 32.5 cm. 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 of the work of Paul Gauguin, whose style was also much admired by Denis’s fellow students Paul Sérusier, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, and Ker Xavier Roussel…

Portrait of Yvonne Lerolle three aspects 1897 Denis Maurice

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