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Vallotton’s vivid, enigmatic and sometimes unsettling paintings and woodcuts made him a key commentator on the social mores of fin-de-siècle Paris By the end of the 19th century, Paris was the unrivaled capital of the Western art world. Impressionism had transformed the visual arts and post-impressionism was flourishing in its wake; new boulevards and parks had modernized the city; theaters and department stores provided endless opportunities for entertainment and consumption. Artists were seen by many as the avant-garde of a new society.Into this dynamic world arrived the 16-year-old Félix Vallotton, who became closely involved with a group of artists known as the Nabis, which included Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. Vallotton adopted their decorative painterly language, also sharing their interest in journalistic illustration and Japanese ukiyo-e prints. His paintings and woodcuts offered witty and often unsettling observations of domestic and political life, and he is now considered one of the greatest printmakers of his age. As his work evolved, the sharp realism and cool linearity of his later style made him one of the most distinctive artists of the early 20th century.Generously illustrated throughout with the finest of his paintings and prints, this book accompanies a new presentation of Vallotton’s oeuvre in New York and London that includes works never before seen in public and aims to reevaluate his output and legacy. Texts by leading authorities on the artist look at his life, work and reception.Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was born in Lausanne, but spent much of his working life in France. Although he produced some of his most important work in Paris in the 1890s in painting and print, his original and innovative approach persisted throughout his career.

This authoritative account of the life and work of Paul Gauguin, one of the most original artists of the late nineteenth century, is revised and updated with color illustrations throughout.Artist Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recognition. But his prominence has always been tangled up with the dramatic and problematic events of his life—his self-imposed exile on a remote South Sea island and his turbulent relationships with his peers—as with the appeal of his art.In this revised and updated edition, art historian Belinda Thomson gives a comprehensive and accessible account of the life and work of one of the most complicated artists of the late nineteenth century. Gauguin’s painting, sculpture, prints, and ceramics are discussed in the light of his public persona, his relations with his contemporaries, his exhibitions, and their critical reception. His private world, beliefs, and aspirations emerge through his extensive cache of journals, letters, and other writings. Fully illustrated in color, and drawing on the new, more global conversation surrounding the artist, Gauguin is the definitive volume on this controversial and often contradictory figure.

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), an Intimist painter and member of the Nabi group, was a master of color and rich pattern. This book VUILLARD is an original and authoritative monograph, with lively and well-written text by author Belinda Thomson, who presents much previously unpublished information. Vuillard is the standard introduction to one of France's best-loved and most-admired painters.

Explores various paintings in the context of Van Goghs short but brilliant career, allying the works to his correspondence.

This unique book gives equal weight to Gauguin's activities, both as an artist and a writer, providing a rare insight into his intractable character and uncompromising ideals.

The term 'Post-Impressionist' was coined in 1910, to describe the work of the French painters of the 1880s and 90s - principally Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh - but has never been a satisfactory label. In this lively survey and sophisticated reappraisal of a period of avant-garde experimentation, many minor as well as major artists are discussed and illustrated. By concentrating on what the artists and contemporary critics did and said, and by looking at what the artists painted, the author raises very sharply the question of what 'Post-Impressionism' means and reveals a fascinating glimpse of personal rivalry, commercial pressures, individual initiatives and shifting allegiances - and no simple pattern at all.

Traces the life of the nineteenth century French artist, looks at his most important paintings, drawings, and sculpture, and discusses influences on his work.

One of a series introducing major movements in modern art to general readers, students and gallery visitors, this text looks at the Post-Impressionists. Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda. Dissatisfied with the essentially short-term effects Impressionism had mastered, they strove in their different ways for an art of a more permanent, structured and expressive kind. By refining and codifying, or dismantling and reassembling, the procedures of Impressionism, artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh and their associates rewrote the rules for representational painting at the turn of the 20th century. The arbitrary colour, exaggerated forms and abstraction of their works marked a new distance between artist and nature, and prepared the public for the freedoms of the next generation of innovators. This book focuses on the artists responsible for these influential stylistic changes, and sets them in their intellectual and historical contexts.

Wer kennt sie nicht, die Meisterwerke von Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890): seine sonnig leuchtenden, flammenden Kornfelder der Provence oder seine einfühlsamen Porträts. Seit Jahren gehören seine Bilder zu den teuersten der Welt. Der Mythos um van Gogh, der zu Lebzeiten kaum ein halbes Dutzend Gemälde verkaufte, heute aber zu den bedeutenden Begründern der Moderne zählt, wird damit bis in unsere Tage fortgeschrieben. Kaum ein anderer Künstler weckt mit seinem Leben, seinen Selbstzweifeln, seiner Einsamkeit eine so große Anteilnahme. Wir freuen uns daher, Ihnen einen Band mit den beeindruckendsten Gemälden van Goghs anbieten zu können, der die 'Ikonen' seines Œuvres und darüber hinaus auch einzelne weniger bekannte Gemälde aus seiner gesamten Schaffenszeit versammelt. Belinda Thomson, eine ausgewiesene Kennerin der Kunst van Goghs und des Postimpressionismus, betrachtet sie vor dem Hintergrund seines kurzen, aber äußerst produktiven Lebens. Die Korrespondenz des Künstlers, die aus Hunderten von Briefen an Familienmitglieder und Freunde besteht, bildet dabei eine wichtige Quelle der Interpretation.

Einführung in die Kunst des Postimpressionismus und seiner Vertreter, mit den wichtigsten Bezügen zu vorangegangenen und folgenden Tendenzen.