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Red Grooms | |||
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1937 in Nashville, TN Lives and works in New York, NY |
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| Nabis, 1998 | ||||
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paint on wood 44 1/4 x 88 1/4 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 1998. 7 |
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| Grooms’s portrait
of the Nabis artists was inspired by an 1899 photograph taken in Paris.
The Nabis was a group of radical French painters and poets who were open
to all forms of intellectual expression, beliving that they should create
a world unto itself, apart from nature. Demonstrating that art should
translate emotion through color and form, their paintings are often characterized
by brilliant colors that are not particularly “true to nature.”
Influenced by the Symbolists and Paul Gauguin, they were active during
the period 1889–99. Among the group, which included artists and
writers from a variety of national and religious backgrounds, were Maurice
Denis, Paul Sérusier, Pierre Bonnard, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Félix
Vallatton, Édouard Vuillard, Henri-Gabiel Ibels, and Jozsef Rippl-Ronai.
Sérusier suggested the name Nabis, from the Hebrew word Nebiim,
meaning “prophets.” Pictured here, from left to right we find Ker-Xavier Roussel, Édouard Vuillard, Romain Coolus, and Félix Vallatton. Coolus was a writer. |
