Morning in the Garden at Vaucresson

Morning in the Garden at Vaucresson by Edouard Vuillard

Edouard Vuillard, in full Jean-Edouard Vuillard, (born November 11, 1868, Cuiseaux,... more

by Edouard Vuillard

Title

Morning in the Garden at Vaucresson

Artist

Edouard Vuillard

Medium

Painting

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Morning in the Garden at Vaucresson by Edouard Vuillard

Edouard Vuillard, in full Jean-Edouard Vuillard, (born November 11, 1868, Cuiseaux, France—died June 21, 1940, La Baule), French painter, printmaker, and decorator who was a member of the Nabis group of painters in the 1890s. He is particularly known for his depictions of intimate interior scenes.

Vuillard studied art from 1886 to 1888 at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1889 he joined a group of art students that included Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Sérusier, Ker-Xavier Roussel, and Félix Vallotton. They called themselves the Nabis (Hebrew for “Prophets”), and they drew their inspiration from the Synthetist paintings of Paul Gauguin’s Pont-Aven period. Like Gauguin, the Nabis advocated a symbolic, rather than a naturalistic, approach to colour, and they usually applied their paint in ways that emphasized the flat surface of the canvas. Their admiration of Japanese woodcuts, which were then in vogue in Europe, inspired them to use simplified shapes and strong contours.

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April 25th, 2015