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Paris Intense- The Nabis: From Bonnard to Vallotton
Paris intense, such is the title given by F茅lix Vallotton to a series of lithographs made in 1893/94 in which he takes a modern look at the French metropolis. Vallotton gets beneath the skin of Paris and presents viewers with a concentrated and intensified reality which is quite the opposite of Belle-脡poque trumpery, affectation and elegance. Only a short while before he had taken up with a group of artists called les Nabis (Hebrew for 鈥榩rophets鈥� or 鈥榚nlightened ones鈥�). The unorthodox formal language of this circle of young students at the Acad茅mie Julian gave a new face to posters, journals, interiors and stage design in fin-de-si猫cle Paris.
This exhibition presents works by the Nabis and such precursors as Gauguin, van Gogh and Puvis de Chavannes from the Neue Pinakothek鈥檚 own collections. Complementing the presentation will be a number of important exhibits from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung M眉nchen and several exquisite loans from other external sources. The exhibition does not attempt to present all members of this group of artists. Instead, by selecting paintings and sculptures by Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, 厂茅谤耻蝉颈别谤, Denis and Maillol which are characteristically Nabis, the exceptional quality of their works in the Neue Pinakothek is to be placed in focus.
Paris intense, such is the title given by F茅lix Vallotton to a series of lithographs made in 1893/94 in which he takes a modern look at the French metropolis. Vallotton gets beneath the skin of Paris and presents viewers with a concentrated and intensified reality which is quite the opposite of Belle-脡poque trumpery, affectation and elegance. Only a short while before he had taken up with a group of artists called les Nabis (Hebrew for 鈥榩rophets鈥� or 鈥榚nlightened ones鈥�). The unorthodox formal language of this circle of young students at the Acad茅mie Julian gave a new face to posters, journals, interiors and stage design in fin-de-si猫cle Paris.
This exhibition presents works by the Nabis and such precursors as Gauguin, van Gogh and Puvis de Chavannes from the Neue Pinakothek鈥檚 own collections. Complementing the presentation will be a number of important exhibits from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung M眉nchen and several exquisite loans from other external sources. The exhibition does not attempt to present all members of this group of artists. Instead, by selecting paintings and sculptures by Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, 厂茅谤耻蝉颈别谤, Denis and Maillol which are characteristically Nabis, the exceptional quality of their works in the Neue Pinakothek is to be placed in focus.
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