Paul Sérusier, armed with his painting of the Bois d'Amour (which becomes known in Paris as "The Talisman") and the authority of Gauguin's teachings, had returned to Paris from Pont-Aven and converted many of his artist friends, who receive his aesthetic doctrines as a mystical revelation.
The liberation of Synthetism, as the new style is called, indeed works like a charm.