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Felix Vallotton
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Félix
Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865
– December 29, 1925) was a Swiss
painter and printmaker associated
with Les Nabis. He was an important
figure in the development of the
modern woodcut.
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Felix Vallotton was born into a
conservative middle class family in
Lausanne, and there he attended Collège
Cantonal, graduating with a degree in
classical studies in 1882. In that year
he moved to Paris to study art under
Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave
Boulanger at the Académie Julian. He
spent many hours in the Louvre, where he
greatly admired the works of Holbein,
Dürer and Ingres; these artists would
remain exemplars for Vallotton
throughout his life. His earliest
paintings, such as the Ingresque
Portrait of Monsieur Ursenbach (1885),
are firmly rooted in the academic
tradition, and his self portrait of 1885
(seen at right) received an honorable
mention at the Salon des artistes
français in 1886.During the following
decade Vallotton painted, wrote art
criticism and made a number of prints.
In 1891 he executed his first woodcut, a
portrait of Paul Verlaine. The many
woodcuts he produced during the 1890s
were widely disseminated in periodicals
and books in Europe as well as in the
United States, and were recognized as
radically innovative in printmaking.They
established Vallotton as a leader in the
revival of true woodcut as an artistic
medium; in the western world, the relief
print, in the form of commercial wood
engraving, had long been utilized mainly
as a means to accurately reproduce drawn
or painted images and, latterly,
photographs.
Vallotton's starkly reductive woodcut
style features large masses of
undifferentiated black and areas of
unmodulated white. While emphasizing
outline and flat patterns, Vallotton
generally made no use of the gradations
and modeling traditionally produced by
hatching. The influences of
post-Impressionism, symbolism and the
Japanese woodcut are apparent; a large
exhibition of ukiyo-e prints had been
presented at the École des Beaux-Arts in
1890, and Vallotton, like many artists
of his era an enthusiast of Japonism,
collected these prints.He depicted
street crowds and demonstrations—including
several scenes of police attacking
anarchists—bathing women, portrait heads,
and other subjects which he treated with
a sardonic humor. His graphic art
reached its highest development in
Intimités (Intimacies), a series of ten
interiors published in 1898 by the Revue
Blanche, which deal with tension between
men and women. Vallotton's prints
have been suggested as a significant
influence on the graphic art of Edvard
Munch, Aubrey Beardsley, and Ernst
Ludwig Kirchner.
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Felix Vallotton (1865 - 1925) - Title:
Portrait of Anna Zborowska (Hanka
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La raison probante (The Cogent
Reason), a woodcut from the
series Intimités, 1898By 1892
he was affiliated with Les
Nabis, a group of young
artists that included Pierre
Bonnard, Ker-Xavier Roussel,
Maurice Denis, and Edouard
Vuillard, with whom Vallotton
was to form a lifelong
friendship. During the 1890s,
when Vallotton was closely
allied with the avant-garde,
his paintings reflected the
style of his woodcuts, with
flat areas of color, hard
edges, and simplification of
detail. His subjects included
genre scenes, portraits and
nudes. Examples of his Nabi
style are the deliberately
awkward Bathers on a Summer
Evening (1892–93), now in the
Kunsthaus Zürich, and the
symbolist Moonlight (1895), in
the Musée d'Orsay.
Around 1899 his printmaking
activity diminished as he
concentrated on painting,
developing a sober, often
bitter realism independently
of the artistic mainstream.
His Portrait of Gertrude Stein
(1907) was painted as an
apparent response to Picasso's
portrait of the previous year,
and in The Autobiography of
Alice B. Toklas Stein
described the very methodical
way in which Vallotton painted
it, working from top to bottom
as if lowering a curtain
across the canvas.
Vallotton responded in 1914 to
the coming of the First World
War by volunteering for the
French army, but he was
rejected because of his age.
In 1915–16 he returned to the
medium of woodcut for the
first time since 1901 to
express his feelings for his
adopted country in the series,
This is War, his last prints.He
subsequently spent three weeks
on a tour of the Champagne
front in 1917, on a commission
from the Ministry of Fine Arts.
The sketches he produced
became the basis for a group
of paintings, The Church of
Souain in Silhouette among
them, in which he recorded
with cool detachment the
ruined landscape. In his last
years Félix Vallotton
concentrated especially on
still lifes and on "composite
landscapes", landscapes
composed in the studio from
memory and imagination. Always
a prolific artist, by the end
of his life he had completed
over 1700 paintings and about
200 prints, in addition to
hundreds of drawings and
several sculptures.He died on
the day after his 60th
birthday, following cancer
surgery in Paris in 1925. |
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