Édouard Vuillard
Jean-Édouard Vuillard (; 11 November 186821 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist, and
printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a prominent member of the
avant garde artistic group
Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color. His interior scenes, influenced by
Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form. As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted theater sets, panels for interior decoration, and designed plates and stained glass. After 1900, when the Nabis broke up, Vuillard adopted a more realistic style, approaching landscapes and interiors with greater detail and vivid colors. In the 1920s and 1930s, he painted portraits of prominent figures in French industry and the arts in their familiar settings.
Vuillard was influenced by
Paul Gauguin, among other post-impressionist painters.
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