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In 1888 the Breton village of Pont-Aven was full of painters, and Paul Gauguin was the one younger artists came to find. One October afternoon he gave a 24-year-old student from Paris a single lesson about colour, and a circle of friends built a movement on it.

Sources: Wikipedia: NabisWikipedia: Pont-Aven School

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Gauguin had been a Paris stockbroker until the 1882 crash pushed him into painting full time. By the summer of 1888 he was living cheaply in Pont-Aven, surrounded by younger painters drawn to his bold, flat colour.

Sources: Wikipedia: Paul GauguinWikipedia: Pont-Aven School
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Paul Sérusier was a student and monitor at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1888 he travelled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists gathered around Gauguin.

Source: Wikipedia
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By 1900 the friends from the Académie Julian were in their thirties and going separate ways. Maurice Denis, their chief theorist, had begun to look past Gauguin toward the classical order he found in Cézanne.

Sources: Wikipedia: Maurice DenisWikipedia: Nabis
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