SÉRUSIER, Paul
French painter, who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde movement Les Nabis, Synthetism and Cloisonnism. In the summer of 1888 he travelled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists centred there around Paul Gauguin, whose style he adhered to, particularly in his paintings of Breton landscapes. With Maurice Denis, Sérusier was a founder and spokesman of the Nabis. Sérusier had a highly methodical approach to art; he expressed his theories in “ABC de la peinture” (1921).