Along with several of his fellow students at the Académie Julian, Maurice Denis helped found this group based on the philosophy of positivism. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this group, whose members also included Pierre Bonnard. Paul Sérusier’s painting The Talisman is considered the first painting by this group, whose name was derived from the Hebrew word for “prophet.”
ANSWER: Les Nabis (“lay na-BEE”)
[10e] The members of Les Nabis can be seen discussing this artist in Denis’s painting titled “Homage to” this artist. That painting shows one of this Post-Impressionist’s many still lifes of fruit.
ANSWER: Paul Cézanne
[10h] Following the disbandment of Les Nabis, Denis painted a series of Fauvist-inspired mythological works set at these locations. Denis’s Bacchus and Ariadne shows a nude family at one of these places inspired by his villa at Perros-Guirec.
ANSWER: beach [prompt on the ocean]
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