Félix Vallotton. Fire Beneath the Ice (Bilingual Edition)

Bilingual exhibition album "Félix Vallotton: le feu sous la glace", at the Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, Paris (18 October 2013 - 20 January 2014).

Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) had a foot in two centuries, two countries and two cultures. Born in Swizterland, he was trained at the Julian Academy in Paris, the cradle of many Post-Impressionist artists and Nabis. His style is easily recognisable by its slim paint layer, refined colours, precise outlines, bold framings, and flattened perspectives borrowed from Japanese prints and photography.

The Félix Vallotton. Fire Beneath the Ice exhibition takes a fresh look at the artist’s work. In ten eloquently named sections, it explores the artist’s aesthetic, social and political motivations and his complex personality: Idealism and Purity of Line; Flattened perspectives; Repression and Lies; A Photographic Eye; “The Tragic Violence of a Black Spot”; Female Duets; Icy Eroticism; Opulent Substance; Modern Mythologies; This is War!

This transversal approach reveals the painter’s obstinate building of an highly personal and modern style, but nevertheless rooted in the long tradition of art. The exhibition therefore presents not only Vallotton’s best known masterpieces, but also paintings seldom or even never shown.

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