One claimed that he painted “like a policeman” because of the stiffness of the lines and the lack of intensity of the colors he used. Vallotton’s late work received many critics. The girl at the right, although young, has characteristics of an older woman and seems curiously disproportionate, especially in her breasts, which seem fully developed and in her abdomen, which seems swollen. As by chance, neither can we observe the faces of the two women struggling friendly in the background. Shadow bathes the front of the woman in the foreground, allowing us to see only the silhouette of her face. Each of the women at the left has her own hair color and their faces are hidden from the spectator. The title of the work is descriptive of what we see in it: 4 naked characters playing in a lake. Three women and a young girl playing in the water is an example of this last period. Because of this, the paintings from this period resulted more classical and naturalistic.
He left bright and flat colors at the same time he would refine his technique. From 1895, the artist associated himself to the group Les nabis who, as we saw in previous posts, fuse the fauvist and expressionist styles.īut from middle 1900s, Vallotton’s style became more sober and less spontaneous. The work of Félix Edouard Vallotton generally is divided in two different periods. Three women and a young girl playing in the water | Félix Edouard Vallotton | 1907
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