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Vallotton, Félix
Vallotton, Félix (1865–1925). Swiss-born painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who became a French citizen in 1900. He was born in Lausanne and after attending evening classes in art locally he moved to Paris in 1882 to study at the Académie Julian. Paris remained his home until his death, but he often visited Switzerland and made numerous other journeys abroad. In his early days in France he copied and repaired paintings and did illustrations for popular journals to earn a living, and in the 1890s he worked a good deal in woodcut; apart from Gauguin, he was the most important French pioneer of the revival of this medium. His woodcut style was less forceful and more polished than Gauguin's, although still very striking. Typically he used very strong contrasts of black and white to create a vigorous sense of pattern. He was a friend of Bonnard and Vuillard and in the 1890s he sometimes exhibited with their Symbolist group the Nabis. In 1899 he married into the Bernheim-Jeune family of picture dealers, and the financial security this brought him enabled him to concentrate on his painting. In his canvases he took over something of the simplifications of form and sharp contrasts between blocks of light and shadow that characterize his woodcuts. His subjects included landscapes, portraits, nudes, and interiors. Vallotton often worked at Honfleur, and from 1920 in the South of France, especially at Cagnes (Road at St Paul, Tate Gallery, London, 1922). He wrote three novels, including the posthumously published La Vie meurtrière (1930), which is autobiographical and illustrated by himself.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Vallotton, Félix." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Vallotton, Félix." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-VallottonFlix.html IAN CHILVERS. "Vallotton, Félix." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-VallottonFlix.html |
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Vallotton, Félix
Vallotton, Félix (b Lausanne, 28 Dec. 1865; d Paris, 28 Dec. 1925). Swiss-born painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who settled in Paris in 1882 and became a French citizen in 1900. In the 1890s he worked a good deal in woodcut, and apart from Gauguin he was the most important French pioneer of the revival of this medium. During the same period he exhibited with the Nabis (he was a friend of Bonnard and Vuillard). After the turn of the century he concentrated on painting; in his canvases he took over something of the simplifications of form and sharp contrasts between blocks of light and shadow that characterize his woodcuts. His subjects included landscapes, portraits, nudes, and interiors. In 1930 his novel La Vie meurtrière was posthumously published; it is autobiographical and illustrated by himself.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Vallotton, Félix." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Vallotton, Félix." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-VallottonFlix.html IAN CHILVERS. "Vallotton, Félix." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-VallottonFlix.html |
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Vallotton, Félix
Vallotton, Félix (1865–1925). Swiss-born painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who settled in Paris in 1882 and became a French citizen in 1900. In the 1890s he worked a good deal in woodcut, and apart from Gauguin he was the most important French pioneer of the revival of this medium. During the same period he exhibited with the Nabis (he was a friend of Bonnard and Vuillard). After the turn of the century he concentrated on painting; in his canvases he took over something of the simplifications of form and sharp contrasts between blocks of light and shadow that characterize his woodcuts. His subjects included landscapes, portraits, nudes, and interiors. He wrote art criticism and also the novel La Vie meurtrière (posthumously published, 1930), which is illustrated by himself.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Vallotton, Félix." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Vallotton, Félix." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-VallottonFlix.html IAN CHILVERS. "Vallotton, Félix." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-VallottonFlix.html |
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Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton , 1865-1925, Swiss woodcut artist and painter. Associated with the Nabis , he worked in Paris. Vallotton rejuvenated the woodcut medium as a creative technique. His boldly cut designs, conceived as arrangements in black and white, depict Parisian society with wit and intelligence. A painting, Swiss Landscape, is in the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Conn. |
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"Félix Vallotton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Félix Vallotton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Vallotto.html "Félix Vallotton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Vallotto.html |
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