Maurice Denis (1870-1943)

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Сообщение от LCR

No, I really do not like Maurice Denis. "Primitive stoplight" (which sometimes I really even like it - see some representatives of German expressionism) to look at Nabidov useless. Of course, everything is relative: Denis - a good artist. But compared with such brilliant figures like Bonnard, Vuillard and Denis seems amorphous, devoid of energy and very pretentious - a sort of mixture of Puvis de Chavannes with wallpaper Liberty

I did not expect from you such a superficial perception. Puvis de Chavannes, of course, naive, and the opposition Bonnard and Vuillard meaningless. Maurice Denis theorist of the movement "Nabi" ( "prophets"), Gauguin and the Japanese passion for drawing was the basis of directions. Color Denis in Japanese refined, and singing from the same plastic lines. And in general to compare the artists is a thankless task and not reasonable. To love or not love - this is understandable, but to compare? Your comparison sometimes resemble asphalt.