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In 1875, Parisian Paul Sérusier (1863-1927) entered the Condorcet Lycée, where he studied classical philosophy, Greek, & Latin, plus the sciences. Ten years later, he entered the Condorcet Lycee, where he became lifelong friends with Maurice Denis. In 1888, Sérusier arrived at Pont-Aven in Brittany, where he became friends with Emile Bernand & Paul Gauguin, who encouraged the young painter to release himself from the constraints of imitative painting, to use pure colors, not to hesitate to exaggerate his impressions, & to give to his paintings his own decorative logic & symbolic system.
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Upon his return to Paris, together with the friends Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Maurice Denis (1870-1943), Henri Ibels (1867-1936) & Paul Ranson (1862-1909), Sérusier formed a group, which they called Nabis (Hebrew "prophets"). They met regularly to discuss theoretical problems of art, symbolism, occult sciences, & esotericism. Later, Armand Seguin, Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) & Kerr-Xavier Roussel (1867-1944) joined the group. Many of the Nabis artists participated in the scene decoration & costume design of the Symbolist plays of the theater, Sérusier among them. The theater made it possible for them to try out on a large scale their principles of simplification & the synthesis of the various means of expression. However, after Gauguin's departure to Tahiti, in 1891, the group gradually fell apart.
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In 1895, Sérusier went to the Benedictine monastery of Beuron in Germany. The monk-artists of the monastery practiced the aesthetic principles, according to which the laws of beauty were divine ones; they were mysteriously hidden in nature & could be revealed only to the artists who were able to perceive the proportions & the harmony of the sizes: "God did everything in the Holy Spirit according to measurement, a number & weight." After several successive voyages to Beuron, he settled in Brittany & cultivated painting primarily based on calculations & measurements.
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Upon his return to Paris, together with the friends Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Maurice Denis (1870-1943), Henri Ibels (1867-1936) & Paul Ranson (1862-1909), Sérusier formed a group, which they called Nabis (Hebrew "prophets"). They met regularly to discuss theoretical problems of art, symbolism, occult sciences, & esotericism. Later, Armand Seguin, Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) & Kerr-Xavier Roussel (1867-1944) joined the group. Many of the Nabis artists participated in the scene decoration & costume design of the Symbolist plays of the theater, Sérusier among them. The theater made it possible for them to try out on a large scale their principles of simplification & the synthesis of the various means of expression. However, after Gauguin's departure to Tahiti, in 1891, the group gradually fell apart.

From 1908, he started to teach regularly at the Ranson Academy. In 1921 Sérusier published "ABC of Painting", a short treatise in which he developed a theory of the curves & simple shapes, plus a theory of color & a method of research of the deafened colors. The painter died in 1927 in Morlaix.