Page "Émile Bernard" Paragraph 21

::" this creative, avant-garde young man destroyed himself in a fight against that same avant-garde he had helped to create.

His rivalry with Gauguin led him out of spite along a different path: classicism.

This change took place when he was living in the Middle East, in a period of great crisis.

But the fact remains that the young Bernard played an essential part as an initiator for Gauguin, and that he was the inventor of a new artistic vision.