Focus on The Talisman (painting) and discuss the abstract.
The Talisman is a painting by French artist Paul Sérusier made in 1888, under the guidance of Paul Gauguin at the  artist's colony of Pont-Aven in Brittany.  Formally known as The Bois d'Amour at Pont Aven, it was called The Talisman and became the starting point and icon of the group of young painters called The Nabis.  It was a landmark in early Post-Impressionism, Synthetism, and Cloisonnism. It is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Nabis Musée d'Orsay Cloisonnism Paul Gauguin Synthetism Post-Impressionism The Nabis Brittany Paul Sérusier Pont-Aven