Laid Down Woman, Sleeping

This is me today, survivor of the past two weeks! This week we have launched our little side holiday project ... a website all about art. That is why I feel totally jiggered now. You must know that for the past couple of weeks our whole team has been putting all their energy into this project, kudos to them! The project is called www.dailyartdaily.com and there everyday we will publish additional art stories. Please check it out, we are waiting for your feedback :) ... but back to Vallotton! 

This Swiss painter is one of my absolute favorites. Vallotton's paintings found admirers and they were generally respected for their truthfulness and their technical qualities; however, the severity of his style was frequently criticized. Typical is the reaction of the critic who, writing in the March 23, 1910 issue of Neue Zürcher Zeitung, complained that Vallotton "... paints like a policeman, like someone whose job it is to catch forms and colors. Everything creaks with an intolerable dryness ... the colors lack all joyfulness."

In its uncompromising character, Vallotton's art prefigured the New Objectivity that flourished in Germany during the 1920s, as well as having a further parallel in the work of Edward Hopper. For me he depicted real life. Like here, my life under the blanket :)