Nabis

British  

/ nabi /

plural noun

1. a group of French artists much influenced by Gauguin, including Bonnard and Vuillard, who reacted against the naturalism of the impressionists See also synthetism

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Etymology

Origin of Nabis

C19: French, from Hebrew nābhi prophet

Example Sentences

Belle Epoque French-Swiss painter Félix Vallotton, best known as a printmaker associated with the symbolist group Les Nabis, took on Verdun — an epic, nearly yearlong battle in eastern France.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

“Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900”

From New York Times • May 21, 2021

But in the paintings of the Nabis, time — instead of splintering, as it does in distracted states — fans out like evening fog, from damp twilight until the lamp-lit hours before bed.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2019

"Nowadays Nabis would be able to tell pretty quickly if it was the same gun."

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2011

Nabis, Prince of the Spartans, withstood a siege by all of Greece and by one of Rome’s most victorious armies, and he defended his native city and his own state against them.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli