Most of these images, if not all, were painted as paysage composé (composed landscapes), which Vallotton created in the studio, the original views altered by memory and imagination. Is that our sun or cosmic rays seen through the window of the SS Starship Enterprise?

It’s all strange, captivating and otherworldly. Félix Vallotton: The library Artist creator QS:P170,Q123740 Title French: La bibliothèque The library title QS:P1476,fr:'La bibliothèque ' label QS:Lfr,'La bibliothèque ' label QS:Len,'The library' Object type painting Date 1915 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions height: 116 cm (45. The landscape oozes potential, as if something usually unseen has spread itself over the world when the people aren’t there and aren’t looking. Each is striking and intense, the coruscating, neon-tempered sun drenching everything in electrifying colours. Īs if to prove his singularity, in the pre-war years Vallotton painted a lot of sunsets. At some point Valloton was dubbed “the singular Félix Vallotton” by Thadée Natanson, co-founder of the avant-garde cultural journal La Revue blanche, for which the artist created stylish woodcuts and graphics, often satirising the fashion-conscious Parisienne and the city’s street life. Felix Vallotton was a Franco-Swiss painter of portraits, nudes, interiors and landscapes, wood-engraver, lithographer, sculptor and writer. Felix Vallotton is known for Genre, portrait painting, nudes, woodcut prints, illustration, writing. Flix Vallotton (18651925) Alternative names Flix douard Vallotton Flix Valloton Felix Vallotton Description Swiss painter and engraver Date of. Les Nabis (Hebrew for The Prophets) were inspired by the decorative, Post-Impressionist, bold, flat style of Paul Gauguin and the simple clarity of Japanese woodblock prints. Felix Edouard Vallotton (1865 - 1925) was active/lived in Switzerland, France. Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) : ‘Coucher de soleil bronze-violet’, 1911įélix Edouard Vallotton (Decem– December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and printmaker associated with Pierre Bonnard, Jean-Édouard Vuillard and their Paris-based Les Nabis art group.

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