High Tide in Evening Light

Félix Vallotton, the extremely talented Swiss painter and printmaker, was a very prolific artist. During the 1890s he belonged to the group of artists known as Les Nabis. This circle of young, avant-garde artists embarked on a new path whose highly decorative style of art was influenced by Gauguin and Japanese prints. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portraits, nudes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style. He was also an author of beautiful, modern landscapes. One of them we present today.

To paint his landscapes, Vallotton predominantly used plein-air sketches and images from his Kodak camera ... though he also occasionally incorporated elements of his imagination. High Tide in Evening Light features segments of bright colors that Vallotton mixed in with the blue waves adding a dream-like quality to the landscape. Vallotton wrote "I dream of a painting entirely disengaged from any literal concern about nature. I want to construct landscapes entirely based on the emotions that they have created in me, a few evocative lines, one or two details, chosen, without a superstition of the exactitude of the hour or the lighting."

P.S. Check out the beautiful black and white prints by Félix Vallotton.  <3

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