Puvis de Chavannes
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noun
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She also appears in works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Renoir, who used her in two of his better paintings, “Dance at Bougival” and “Dance in the City.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
The Nabi painters and printmakers were influenced by the flattened forms and archaic aura of the neoclassical muralist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and by Paul Gauguin.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019
But, however much Gorey owes to the Surrealists, I see in him, equally, their less fun-loving predecessors, the Symbolist poets and painters of the late nineteenth century: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Khnopff, Munch, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
Saleeby knew some of the leading painters of his time, including John Singer Sargent, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2012
For example, Michaelangelo and the Bible, Rembrandt and Balzac, Puvis de Chavannes and the Merovingian narratives.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
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