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Vuillard was born in Cuiseaux in Saône-et-Loire and was brought up in Paris in modest circumstances. He attended the Lycée Condorcet where his contemporaries included musician Pierre Hermant , writer Pierre Véber and painter Maurice Denis . In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycée Condorcet and joined his closest friend Ker-Xavier Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart (1840-1926). There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training.
Vuillard began to frequent the Louvre and was soon determined to build an artistic career. In doing so, Vuillard broke with the family tradition of a career in the army. In March 1886, Vuillard entered the Académie Julian, where he was taught by Tony Robert-Fleury . On his third attempt, in July 1887, Vuillard passed the entrance examination to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. For a period of about six weeks in 1888, Vuillard was taught by Jean-Léon GérômeJean-Leon Gerome ( May 11, 1824 1904) was a French painter who produced many works in a historical, Orientalist style. 1872 is the immediate source of the "thumbs down" gesture in popular culture. Born at Vesoul ( Haute-Saone). He went to Paris in 1841 an. During his study, Vuillard developed a preference for the realistic study of still-life and domestic interiors. He was particularly attracted to the 17th-century Dutch artists. Later in life, Vuillard would also draw large decorative panels depicting landscapePieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565: Peace and agriculture in a pre-Romantic ideal landscape, without sublime terrors Landscape refers to the layout in terms of a land area and to its visual representation, particularly as portrayed by members of the paintings.
In 1889Events January-April January 8 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. February 11 Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 January 30 ? Crown, Vuillard was persuaded by Maurice Denis to join a small dissident group of young art students of the Académie Julian, committed to creating work of symbolic and spiritual nature. The group referred to itself as the brotherhood of Nabis. Sérusier instilled in Les NabisLes Nabis, Art Movement In 1888-89, Les Nabis originated as a rebellious group of young student artists who banded together at the Academie Julian in Paris, France. A group of Post-Impressionist artists and illustrators, they became very influential in th a love for the synthetistSynthetism is a style of painting that developed out of Cloisonnism. Synthetism formed a current within symbolism. It was practised by Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and others in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The term synthetism derives f method, which relied on memory and imagination rather than direct observation. Vuillard was at first reluctant to accept the synthetist idea that the painter should not seek to reproduce realistically what he saw. However, during 1890 he made his first bold experiments in Synthetist painting.
Vuillard died in La Baule in 1940.