...axiom: "One must remember that before it is a war-horse, a nude woman, or whatever anecdote, a painting is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order." 208 Denis went on to stress the importance of musicality, claiming that the impact of a work of art...

...sound, we could not say of a page of verse or prose what Maurice Denis said of painting: A painting — before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some...surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.33 Denis's comment may, of course, be read as a rejection of nineteenthcentury academic realism,...

...Nabi painter Maurice Denis's famous remark, "Remember that a painting— before it is a battlehorse, a nude woman, or some anecdote— is essentially a...surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order."42 Where other artists might find the absolute essential features to be the flat surface or...

...1890: "Remember that a painting, before being a warhorse, a nude woman, or an anecdote of any kind, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order." At that moment, abstract art took on a virtual existence.1 Only a virtual existence, however, since...

...essential characteristic of modern art: "a picture — before being a war horse, a nude woman, or an anecdote — is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order."33 This flattening was accomplished by the Cubists in part by multiple perspective but also...

...continued: "Remember that a picture before being a battle horse, a nude, an anecdote, or what not, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order." The Nabis painted on cardboard and blended turpentine with their pigment, thereby lending a "matte"...

...C1900) in the Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris. »» Remember that a painting — before it is a battlehorse, a nude woman, or some anecdote — is essentially...covered with colors assembled in a certain order. 1912 Theorie* Denison, Edmund Beckett See Grlmthorpe, 1st Baron Denman, Lady Gertrude Mary nee Pearson...

...key to modern painting: "Remember that a picture — before being a war horse or a nude woman or an anecdote— is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order." "The Green Trees" — a decorative arrangement of flat forms and patterns in matte colors — makes...

...modern painting: "Remember that a picture—before being a war horse or a nude woman or an anecdote—is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order." "The Green Trees"— a decorative arrangement of flat forms and patterns in matte colors—makes no...

...that no longer claimed to represent reality. The symbolist painter Maurice Denis observed in 1 890, "It is well to remember that a picture - before being...surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order."3 Twenty years later, painters were arranging colors on flat surfaces - or even pasting objects...