Bailey’s National Pythian Temple Fragment, Chicago, Illinois.

The conservation of artworks that brave the elements, like our beloved lions, requires specialized skill, years of experience, and a studio filled with cool tools. It’s all strange, captivating and otherworldly. Water, Lasers, and Wax: Conserving the Art Institute Lions. 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. He painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. But despite living through one of the most profound periods. He remained in France for the rest of his life, becoming a citizen in 1900. 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. Flix Edouard Vallotton was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis. Born in the Swiss city of Lausanne in 1865 and raised in a modest, Protestant household, Vallotton moved to Paris as a 16-year-old aspiring artist, situating himself at the heart of the contemporary art world. 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. 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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