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Adèle Blais painting is her quest, a venue for personal growth She uses it to express her daily life, her relationships.
"When I paint, the canvas becomes the backdrop of my play. Like a sponge, I've absorbed the actors' stories, the events in my life and I render them in my way."
Her unique style, described by one New York critic as "neo-pop-happy", mixes superimposed washes of vibrant acrylic colors with textured collages, small pieces of text and black contour lines, giving her paintings their distinctive signature. The result is reminiscent of an assembled puzzle where the black lines are the vestiges of a separation that is still possible. Where her subjects are not bared of clothing and skin, they are dressed in flamboyant and theatrical clothing.
"The characters in my paintings are reconstructions, an assembly of impressions, the evocations of emotions, of memories; they are the materialization of the inspirations coming from unknown places. My creative process is to put in juxtaposition the interior and the exterior, 2D and 3D. It's to be present and work from a neutral space between opposite poles from which everything emerges. It's a dichromatic representation of the hidden and the outwardly expressed emotion; it's marrying the world of appearances that is expressed in costumes, frills, and colors, and a dimension that I can't name but that I feel. I want to bare the souls of my subjects, go to the quick, attempt to interpret what, according to me, is going on deeper than the clothing, deeper than the skin. In fact, I'm trying to show what's in their gut!"
This is the artistic signature of the artist who more often than not, she says, vacillate between everything and
Behind his words, as behind his art, you can sense elaborate webs of thought. And, also like his paintings, he stands quite alone, beyond category. It's impossible to speak with him for a few hours without feeling his powerful sense of self. He is, it seems, a free man.
Amy Judd is a London based artist represented by Hicks Gallery Wimbledon.
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ANDREW SALGADO (b.1982, Regina, Canada) has situated himself as one of the eminent emerging painters in both the UK and North America. He has been listed by Saatchi as "one to invest in today" (Sept 2013), lauded by esteemed critic Edward Lucie Smith as a "dazzlingly skillful advocate" for painting, and been endorsed by Tony Godfrey (author of Phaidon's Painting Today) as an "exciting artist with a particular vision".
Salgado has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, Australia, Venezuela, Thailand, Korea, South Africa, Canada, and the USA. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Youth in Trouble, for Art Basel Miami Week, (December 2015), as well as his much anticipated fourth solo exhibition at Beers London (2016).
Salgado is featured in 100 Painters of Tomorrow, authored by Kurt Beers and published by Thames & Hudson (2014); he is subject of a 2015 documentary, entitled Storytelling - which followed the artist over 4 months while he created a body of work (www.storytellingfilm.com). He is curating an exhibition, The Fantasy of Representation, which includes work by Gary Hume, David Hockney, Justin Mortimer, and Hurvin Anderson for Beers London (July 2015); he is recipient of Canada's SK Lieutenant Governor's Arts Award (2013). In 2015 the artist will collaborate with Danish fashion house RAINS to release a line of luxury garments.
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, is an author and art aficionado. She is also a contributor to Lens Magazine for Fine Art Photography and International Art Market Magazine, both leading brands in the art world today with worldwide exposure in digital & print.
Having lived in 5 cities, in 4 countries, across 3 continents, and having traveled long-term to several more places, Anne is particularly interested in indigenous arts.
Anne lived in Singapore for nearly six years, and in 2015, researched and authored a 200-page coffee table book on the decorative tiles seen in the heritage precincts of the city. This book briefly traces the history of tiles from nearly 6,000 years ago to modern day Singapore, and was well received, both by the general public and the media.
She has also contributed several art-related articles to inflight magazines like Silkwinds (Silk Air) and SilverKris (Singapore Airlines) as well as cross-cultural publications like Passage.
For me, Delphine challenges narcissistic desire which remains disconnected from the person, ridiculed and isolated and, like Abramsky-Arazi, still points towards hope, to the possibility of finding more reality and connection, if only tension is maintained.
Bang Bang is a small exhibition which invites us to ask some big questions. It seeks to touch us in the moment before turning our heads back, alerting us to remain present to our choices and possibilities, committed to a life that can hold tensions without collapsing them into certainties.
Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism.
"Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America's heart-its land and its people-and describes the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.
"Bartlett was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where realist principles must be grasped before modernist ventures are encouraged. He pushes the boundaries of the realist tradition with his multilayered imagery. Life, death, passage, memory, and confrontation coexist easily in his world. Family and friends are the cast of characters that appear in his dreamlike narrative works. Although the scenes are set around his childhood home in Georgia, his island summer home in Maine, his home in Pennsylvania or the surroundings of his studio and residence in Washington state, they represent
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Boris Leifer. A painter. Born. 25.06.1946
Graduated from the Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, Russia) in 1975.
Member of Union of Artists of Russia.
Member of the Israel Union of Artists.
Carole Feuerman (b. 1945, Connecticut, US), is recognized as one of the world's most renowned hyper-realist sculptors since the 1970s. Together with sculptors Duane Hanson and John De Andrea, she was one of the three leaders that started the hyperrealist movement in the late 1970's. Her work explores classicism, while presenting common themes that occur in our everyday lives.
The sculptures tell powerful stories of experiences the artist has encountered in her own life, presenting their universality and her feelings regarding them. Evoking inward emotions, Feuerman invites the spectator to identify with the narrative they see before them. Her prolific career spans across four decades in which she has pioneered new approaches to sculpture. She is the only figurative artist to hyper-realistic paint bronze for outdoor public art, painting bronze to look like flesh, and the only sculptor to install these painted bronze sculptures in water.
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Feuerman's approach to depicting the human form is full of the care and intensity reminiscent of Bernini's marble sculptures in the late Renaissance. Nail beds are imperfect, the bottoms of feet naturally wrinkled, and the skin is tanned and covered in strikingly realistic water droplets. The intense physicality of her work acts as a vehicle for more nuanced investigations into human emotions and psychology. The success of each of Feuerman's works hinges on the believability of it. It is quite easy to stand in front of the artist's work and shift our sense of reality. When the physical materials of the artwork, the resin, the bronze and the paint and lacquer are perceived as nothing other than skin and flesh, what we are left with is the truth, the psychological story of each figure.
Feuerman has been honored with nine solo major museum retrospectives to date. Her work has been showcased in numerous exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, the State Hermitage, the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, the Kunstmuseum Ahlen, the Archeological Musei di Fiesole, and the Circulo de Bellas Artes. She won first prize at the Austrian Biennale, the Florence Biennale, the 2008 Olympic Fine Art Exhibition, best in show at the Beijing Biennale, and best in the show at the Save the Arts Foundation as Museum's Choice. She has also won a Peabody. One of Feuerman's most recognizable pieces, "The Golden Mean", can be seen in the Riverfront Green Park overlooking the Hudson River and is owned by the City of Peekskill in NY. Her "Monumental Double Diver" is owned by the City of Sunnyvale in Silicon Valley, California. Her sculptures are included in the permanent collections of 19 museums, and the selected private collections of the Emperor of Japan, President William Clinton, Norman Brahman, the Caldic Collection, Mark Parker of Nike and Malcolm Forbes.
Born in Suffolk, Chrissy knows its landscape well and constantly turns to it for inspiration.
A watercolour artist for several years she is now best known for her etchings reflecting her passion for trees and the East Anglian coastline. Although primarily a colourist she frequently enjoys the contrasts that black and white studies can produce. Always looking for design in nature she often revisits a familiar subject matter to capture it in a different light or season.
Chrissy has studied printmaking part time at Central St Martins College of Art and Design, Suffolk College and Gainsborough's House, Sudbury. She is a member of the Sudbourne Park Printmakers based at workshops near Orford. She has exhibited in London and some of her work has been accepted for the Palace of Westminster Collection. Her work is mainly on sale in selected galleries in Suffolk and Norfolk.
Conor Harrington, an Irish painter, Currently based in East London, where he works primarily from his studio. His works can be found across the globe, from Dublin, the United States, and the United Kingdom to Norway, Spain, and the Bethlehem Wall, among other places.
Conor Harrington's work draws a fine line between classical and contemporary art, and masterfully creates a world within those boundaries. The Irish-born Harrington, a former graffiti artist, not only still enjoys painting huge outdoor murals but consistently tackles new, inventive forms of art, often in a gallery setting. Harrington's blend of the historical and hypermodern is unsurpassed. The Irish former graffiti artist still paints outdoor murals worldwide to considerable acclaim, while enjoying a meteoric rise in his gallery career.
His lauded large-scale paintings fuse realist figurative work inspired by old masters with abstractions taken from the graffiti scene that nurtured his talents. He is a central figure within a new breed of young artists tackling socio-political themes using fine art techniques in a context formerly reserved for street artists. His work combines contemporary and classical references to create an astonishingly resonant dialogue with the viewer.
Harrington's works are unquestionably dreamlike, finding a striking balance between the ethereal senses and hard realism behind the dominant themes of today's society. In a sense, Harrington emphasizes the importance of realism in his work by the application of more modern elements, such as feature obfuscation, that bring this style of art to light. This even distribution of both techniques by Conor Harrington allows the viewer to get a sense of the importance of both methods in depicting what he is attempting to communicate with regards to each piece.
Conor Harrington utilizes realistic images of people in his pieces, incorporating abstract elements to accompany his painted subject. His illustration of the human form is mesmerizing: he skillfully hones in on certain parts of the figure while obscuring others through the use of bold line work, superb shading and bursts of color within his creations. There is also a more subdued side to Conor Harrington's art, relying on a darker color palette to convey his intended message to his audience.
Ultimately, the ability to combine unconventional, contemporary techniques while focusing on the more historical human form allows his art to be more revolutionary in nature while retaining a sense of historical importance. An example of this is Harrington's use of male figurative aspects. He frequently depicts conflicts found in the modern male identity and its role in the "gender crisis."
Conor Harrington's works are unquestionably dreamlike, finding a striking balance between the ethereal senses and hard realism behind the dominant themes of today's society. In a sense, Harrington emphasizes the importance of realism in his work by the application of more modern elements, such as feature obfuscation, that bring this style of art to light. This even distribution of both techniques by Conor Harrington allows the viewer to get a sense of the importance of both methods in depicting what he is attempting to communicate with regards to each piece.
The juxtaposition of sharp lines alongside the softer image of the human form is another clever technique used by Conor Harrington to modernize what could be seen as a more classical image. His art is astute in the sense that it takes into consideration the imagery and works of previous classical artists to bring to light what is noteworthy in today's world.
Whether it be murals, paintings, or, as in the case of 2008's Weekend Warriors exhibition, the use of costumes and military re-enactment enthusiasts, the integration of the old and new is what makes Conor Harrington's work so memorable. He is always delicately, definitively tapping into both the historical and the often parallel modern themes of our society to deliver important commentary through his beautiful artworks.
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Daniel Martin's most recent work comprises explicit portraits of defiled faces, and the images have an unsettling expression. It feels like the portraits were deliberately damaged after the painting was completed. This consciously cultivated spontaneity in painting is intrinsic to Martin's work. A misshapen tree, that imperfection of beauty, is a source of inspiration to Daniel Martin. A ratio affected by chaos. That violation of appearance is anonymous and sidelines the individual's identity and character, and it makes the faces dissolve or return in nature's chaos.
Daniel Sprick was born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
He studied at the Froman School of Art and The National Academy of Design and received his B.F.A. from University of Northern Colorado in 1978. His love of drawing and the development of his oil painting techniques began at the age of 4, with influences stemming as far back as Robert Campin and Roger van de Weyden. Sprick has had numerous solo exhibitions, participated in many group exhibitions, and has his work in private and public collections throughout the United States and abroad. He is currently represented by the Arcadia Gallery in NYC
" I've always done portraits and figures in the life-drawing classes that i've taught and attended through probably 30 years, so i actually have access to a model every week. And sometimes two models a week. So, i've always had my hand in it. And i have mountains of drawings in charcoal to show you and small paintings of models and so forth. But the thing that has made a huge difference for me is the versatility that photography has now that it never had before. And that is because of digital imagery being able to correct for the shortcomings of photography. You can make it look so much like the original image in life. So, i think photography is a much more useful tool now than it ever was. Even though it was used extensively in the 19th century, by the artists -jules dupre, breton, bouveret. It's more useful now than it ever was. It's so funny to me how so many artists publicly disdain the use of photos, but privately use them."
Danielle Greenfeld, 28 lives in central Israel. She is engaged in drawing, painting, photography and writing.
My first works were abstract paintings in acrylic. In recent years I abandoned using lots of color and moved to minimalist drawings by pencil in black and white and ink on paper. Drawings express my interest in the relationship between inner and outer space. I am occupied with brief sketches that reveal what is beneath the material to understand how space functions almost entirely through lines that produce boundaries. These sketches resemble images with an x-ray quality and a minimalist clean lined approach. My decision in recent years to go back to the basics of creativity was a development of using colors. This has provided a dramatic narrative contrasting the lively colors with shades between black and white.
Since taking on painting full time in 2003, Dominique Fortin has found her niche in a dream-like representation of the human character. Trained at the Saint-Laurent Cegep as well as at the Sud-Ouest School of Crafts with a focus on jewellery, it is easy to see how the creative nature of her thought process is translated onto her canvases.
Dominique Fortin's work can be characterized as an unwavering exploration of human nature. Initially drawing from a modernist tradition, her work has evolved into a unique style that is almost dream-like, full of fantasy and romanticism, childlike innocence and raw emotion. Fortin suggests that her works, at one point, were a representation of reality, but as her artistic style has progressed, she finds herself captured within this dream-like world where the characters are not actors on a stage but rather the catalysts of unsolicited emotion.
She is inspired by the ideals of "optimistic perspectives, the delightful aesthetics" and the constant redefinition of life. She is currently influenced by individuals that listen to their heart, those that devoting themselves towards an ideal and people that are true to themselves. True to herself, Fortin has begun further introspection into her work stating, "my practice of yoga has deeply oriented my approach to life and inevitably to my work." She continues to focus on themes of childhood, and how this "paradise lost" has become found again in her own children. Fanciful, and imaginative, these paintings represent the second coming of Fortin's youth.
Symbolism continues to be a key component of Fortin's work. Birds and butterflies are repeated throughout, serving as symbols of metamorphosis and the cyclical nature of life. In the artist's words, "they are the soul freed from its physical incarnation." Fortin has continuously focused on the reciprocity between humans and nature. This is strongly exhibited in her works where animals and humans are united. Fortin has found an artistic language that is unique; by adding text and various techniques such as gilding, image transfer and fabrics, each work is visually rich with layers of texture with room for multiple interpretations. These techniques and concepts allow Fortin to create pieces that not only echo her optimistic, romantic ideals but allow her to speak symbolically through her artwork.
Doron Gal-Adoni, a new emerging artist in the Israeli Art stage, creates his wonderful abstract art from an inner state of manifestation.
, has been practicing the art of photography for over 25 years. Doug's award-winning urban and architectural photography, often captured with Doug's trademark photographic style of an environment devoid of human engagement, focuses on the human experience's abstract nature - the residuals of existence.
In a nutshell, this is Doug's philosophy on the art of self-expression. Life is nothing more than an illusion, a cosmic joke. All of us play the joke on ourselves, and when we finally start to wake up, we marvel at the simplicity and nonsense of it all.
Doug married into the Japanese culture 30 years ago. He has spent a considerable amount of time assimilating the Japanese way of being. Doug regularly travels to Japan with his wife and daughter to spend time with the family near Kyoto and also enjoys traveling by himself with the simple goal of getting lost so he can find himself through his art. Tokyo is his favorite destination on Earth to get lost.
I was born in Belgrade, I am living in Vienna and I am traveling often between the both cities and many other destinations.
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Edgar Rafael is a self-proclaimed punk. He was born in Russia in 1990, and immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1993.
As a teenager, Rafael was arrested for graffiti tagging, claiming that he just fell in love with the large-scale canvasses in the streets, also known as ‘walls'. He began practicing street art at the age of 13 years old, painting everything from billboards to dumpsters in the urban landscapes of the city Ashdod, where he grew up.
In 2011, Rafael joined an architecture school. There, he began incorporating geometrical structures in his work, portraying historical icons with his unique techniques.
Just before his final exams, Rafael resigned from architecture school and to persuade a full-time career as an artist, working his magic on the streets of Tel Aviv.
When he was only 23 years old, with little money enough just to cover the price of his flight tickets, Rafael traveled to Los Angeles, California, where he had learned to work with a wide range of mediums and techniques inspired by the local art scene. Rafael's career had taken a big step after Israeli singer and musician, Rotem Cohen, commissioned a work for his tour. A fan of Rotem Cohen fell in love with edgars style, leading Rafael to get his first mural commission in a luxurious villa, where he painted a continuously large work through the entirely of the villa's walls with the face of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe using tiny geometrical structures. This job had turned out to be the most significant of Rafael's works. After finishing it, he started getting more and more commissions from high-profile clients and art collectors.
Following that commission, Rafael had accomplished four major Solo exhibitions.
Rafael's work is effortlessly sassy and bold. His artistic style is rich with tastes of nostalgia, following his childhood heroes, comics book, cartoons, and video games. His unique approach, developed from pop art futurism and cubism, is often apparent with bright colours and iconic characters.
Edgar's large-scale mural work features a geometrical aesthetic, a visual collage of pop imagery mixed with his unique personal style portraiture, all executed with mixed media mediums. His works feature freehand spray paint, acrylic paint, oil pastels, markers, art glitter and art resin working on a colossal scale. Rafael now focuses on his fine art and large-scale murals full-time. These murals can be found in dozens of houses across the globe, from Belarus to Canada, Israel, Paris, Los Angeles, Belgium and more.
Rafael's pieces have been showcased in high-profile companies and private collectors' homes. His most recent series was showcased in a luxurious villa in Tel Aviv. His clientele is diverse and spans across the globe.
Edgar Rafael is currently working on his next exhibition dealing with his childhood heroes and muses by combining Disney and Looney Tunes characters with geometrical portraits of pop-culture icons such as Pablo Picasso, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, Tony Soprano and many others. This work is executed on large-scale mediums, growing bigger and bigger with each work.
Emerich Meerson, a French painter born in Germany, spent his childhood in Bulgaria. He lives and works in Paris. He designed watches and Jewelry collections under his own name, as well as for the most celebrated jewelers, such as Tiffany's, Elsa Perretti, Mikimoto, Van Cleef & Arpels.
Recognized as one of the most talented designers of his generation, he always continued to draw and paint.
Since 1992 painting is his sole profession. The result today is an extraordinary body of work. He has been exhibiting, first in private surroundings, then in individual or group shows.
It's hard to classify Emerich Meerson in a particular school or trend, because of his abundant creativity and his constant pursuit of plastic expression.
His Individuality is strong and recognizable in all his work, which is, first and always, full of emotion. To look at one of his drawings, one of his paintings, one of his sculptures, always inspires questions, feelings, and reflection. That's because the artist always looks for the truth hidden behind the visible world. Sometimes profusely, sometimes sparsely, he transmutes the vibrations of the material, the coexistence of order and disorder, and the movement toward becoming rather than an image stuck in the present. His work is rich and enriching.
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Eva Struble was born in Elsmere, Kentucky. She received her MFA in painting from Yale University in 2006 and her BA in Visual Arts in 2003 from Brown University. Her exhibit of painted prints, Emblema, was recently shown at the UVA's School of Architecture in 2015, and her project, Produce, was displayed in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2014. Both projects dealt with agriculture, labor and immigration and in North County, San Diego. Landsmen, a solo exhibition of paintings which showed in New York in 2011 at Lombard-Freid Projects and explored architecture of the Brooklyn Navy Yard as well as former military sites in the Marin Headlands. Her work has been shown at the Cleveland MOCA, at Angles Gallery in Santa Monica, and the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles among others. Ms. Struble has completed residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, and the Andratx Cultural center in Mallorca. Her work has received praise in Art In America, The Village Voice and other publications. She currently lives in San Diego, CA.
Eva Struble's monumental paintings draw from the traditions of landscape,architecture, and abstraction. Taking inspiration from sources as diverse as a ntique Arabic miniatures and contemporary Asian construction, Struble's motifs balance the odyssey of nature with the carefully ordered precision of design. Rendered with acidic hues and an exaggerated consideration of space and placement, Stuble's landscapes resolve as affected dioramas, envisioning otherworldly tableaux through their compositional pastiche.
Struble approaches the act of painting itself as a physical manifestation, allowing the eclectic application of her materials to create a disorientating illusion of space: an erased void of a mountain conveys an aberrant weight, the perspective of architecture gives way to its flattened decorative patterning, skies are rendered with day-glo pop sheen, and earth swills as layers of mellifluous splotches. The physical impossibilities implied through Struble's painterly manipulation are made believable through her inclusion of intricate detail, as blades of grass, grains of sand, and weathered dabs of rock are set within her scenes with
George Hendrik Breitner was born in Rotterdam in 1857.
In 1876, he enrolled at the academy in The Hague. Later, he worked at Willem Maris' studio. In this early period he was especially influenced by the painters of the Hague School. Breitner preferred working-class models: labourers, servant girls and people from lower-class neighbourhoods. He saw himself as ‘le peintre du peuple', the people's painter. In 1886, he moved to Amsterdam, where he recorded the life of the city in sketches, paintings and photos. Sometimes he made several pictures of the same subject, from different angles or in different weather conditions. Photos might serve as an example for a painting, as for his portraits of girls in kimonos, or as general reference material. Breitner often collaborated with Isaac Israels; both painters are referred to as Amsterdam Impressionists. Conservative critics called Breitner's style ‘unfinished'.
Inspired by Japanese prints, Breitner made at least twelve paintings around 1894 of a girl in a kimono. She assumes different poses and the kimono often has a different colour. What catches the eye here is the embroidered, white silk kimono with red-trimmed sleeves and an orange sash. The dreamy girl is sixteen-year-old Geesje Kwak, a hat-seller and one of Breitner's regular models.
Giovanni De Benedetto is an Italian klecksography artist who combines painting and photography media at once.
His projects have multiple points of view. The observers are an active part of the creative process, where each artwork has been made to shake the spectator from the inside.
Starting from 2012, he took part in several solos and collective exhibitions with his main project PREMATURE, exhibiting in cities like Venice, Paris, Miami Beach, Berlin, and Bangkok.
In 2019, he was selected for the 4-month artist residency program at coGalleries in Berlin, which culminated with his first solo exhibition in the German capital at the gallery located in Berlin-Mitte.
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Lilac Abramsky-Arazi is an Israeli painter, whose background is in neuropsychology and dance, she openly admits her attraction to imperfection within her work. Of her four paintings, two are of particular interest for this piece - Tron and Crossing.
"I love the poetry in Lilac's work," says Malika Ali, "it invites people to spend time looking - to take time and dig a little deeper, it involves both the intellect and the emotions."
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Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut.
Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1865 and obtaining French citizenship in 1900, Vallotton drew his inspiration from this double culture. Following studies at the Académie Julian and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he strove to make his living by painting portraits. It was however in his portrayals of Parisian life that Vallotton developed an individual style, which he changed very little afterwards. Vallotton later tried his hand at engraving, a form he soon mastered and received widescale acclaim for, his prints used in many magazines and publications of the day. Vallotton's engravings primarily consist of large areas of black and white and are characterised by their stark contrast and acute attention to detail.
"Vallotton's engraving reached such a level of originality that the various influences which merged within it were no longer perceptible, creating a language all of his own which no longer resembled that of anyone else. […] It is in his engraving that the multiple aspects of his talent best reveal themselves, whether it be those of the portraitist, the draughtsman of everyday life, the decorator, or the accomplished designer."
The artist exhibited with the Nabis for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants in 1893, where he caused a sensation with The Bath, Summer Evening. His painting evolved towards more stylised scenes which approached his engravings, a practice he turned away from in 1900. The same year, he married Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques, daughter and sister of the Bernheim art dealers, the marriage offering Vallotton bourgeois comforts and a solid footing in the art market.
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