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Private Lives : Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis ; Paris, 1889-1900 (exhibition Cleveland Museum of Art, 01.07 - 19.09.2021 ; Portland Art Museum, 23.10.2021 - 23.01.2022)
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ISBN: 9780300257595 0300257597 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cleveland-Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art,

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"In 1889, Avant-garde artists in Paris formed a brotherhood to promote a radical new direction in art. Adopting the name Nabis-Hebrew for "prophets"-they aimed to capture subjective experience and emotion in their paintings, prints, and drawings. This volume focuses on intimate views of home and family by four Nabi artists: Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Maurice Denis (1870-1943), Félix Vallotton (1865-1925), and Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940). For Bonnard and Denis, this arena was ideal for depicting small pleasures and "modest acts of life"; Vallotton and Vuillard, however, hinted at the tensions simmering just below the surface. This catalogue is the first to delve deeply into the Nabis' use of domestic life as the locus for artistic inspiration"--

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