The Incantation, or The Holy Wood

Date: 1891
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, France
Dimensions: 91.5 x 72

Sérusier painted picture The Incantation, or The Holy Wood in 1891. Prevailing color of this fine art print is brown and its shape is portrait. Original size is 91.5 x 72. This art piece is located in Musee des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, France. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

French Symbolist painter Paul Serusier (1864-1927) was born into a family of perfume businessmen. Seruiser studied philosophy in Greek and Latin. After his studies, he visited Pont-Aven in Brittany, where he was attracted by a small group of artists headed by Paul Gauguin, from whom he got one free lesson. When he returned to Paris, he told his colleagues how the famous painter advised him to get rid of stress and imitation, and instead transfer his own ideas, feelings and colours to canvas. A year later, he returned to Pont-Aven and became part of the art group Nabis, whose members included for example Jean-Edouard Vuillard. In 1895, Srusier’s artistic repertoire dramatically changed. After a visit from a friend from Germany, who was a Benedictine monk, he coined the idea that the beauty of the divine laws can be revealed only by an artist with a sense of harmony. However, he was not understood by the artistic community. When he died in 1927, an art magazine published a long article mapping his life work in his honour.