During the late 1880s, Paul Serusier worked with a group of artists in the French province of Brittany, home of the ancient Celts. The artists wanted to capture Brittany’s rugged landscape and simple Celtic customs and rituals. They experimented with color, shape, and line to suggest feelings or ideas. Unlike the Impressionists, they were not interested in modern life, but rather in the timeless, spiritual values they associated with this remote area of France.
Celtic Tale
oil on canvas • 110.8 x 101 cm
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Paul Serusier