Felix vallotton 1917 world
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At the outbreak of war in 1914, the former Nabi painter and print-maker Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) had turned to painting unusual landscapes showing transient atmospheric effects like fog, with the simplification of a print.
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He volunteered for the army, although at this time he was almost fifty and was rejected because of that.
Vallotton’s The Sheaves from 1915 is one of his moving and symbolic images of the Great War.
It’s late summer, harvest time, and the ripe corn is being cut and stacked in sheaves. But where are those farmworkers, whose rakes rest against the sheaves, and whose lunch-basket sits on the ground ready to be eaten?
Where is the wagon collecting the harvest, and why is the white gate in the distance closed?
Then followed images of war itself. Landscape of Ruins and Fires from 1915 captures the utter destruction on the ground and surrealist displays in the sky.
Vallotton returned to making woodcut prints, which he assembled into his