The Bath

I personally love Félix Vallotton. This Swiss-born artist was a painter and also the leading innovator of artistic woodcuts. While other fin-de-siècle printmakers mostly used the popular color lithography technique (such as Toulouse-Lautrec), Vallotton focused on the woodcut and the expressive power of black ink on white paper. These works made such an impression on the Nabi artists in 1892 that they invited him to join them. 

Vallotton made over 120 woodcuts between 1891 and 1901. The decorative surface of these work frequently concealed a powerful element of social critique. He held up a mirror to his contemporaries and confronted them—lightened by a dash of humor—with issues such as oppression, mass consumption, and the hypocrisy of marriage.

Happy Friday! It's always good to take a bath on Fridays. 

P.S. If you liked Vallotton's black-and-white print, discover more of his outstanding and underappreciated work. 

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