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Vuillard

[ vwee-yar ]

noun

  1. (Jean) É·douard [zhah, n, ey-, dwar], 1868–1940, French painter.


Vuillard

/ vɥijar /

noun

  1. VuillardJean Édouard18681940MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: lithographer Jean Édouard (ʒɑ̃ edwar). 1868–1940, French painter and lithographer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Gherard’s works are abstract, but their titles — like “Shrouding” or “Sister of the Artist According to Vuillard,” a reference to an 1893 painting by French artist Édouard Vuillard of his widowed mother — hint at their visual and thematic forebears.

Inspired by the work of Édouard Vuillard and Les Nabis artists, the Los Angeles-based French artist will present monoprints, a new large-scale tapestry and what she calls “fluff” paintings, done on faux fur.

“I am both happy and proud that my date of birth coincided with these events,” Vuillard said in a recent video interview from his home in Tours, central France.

As a writer, Vuillard has drawn on this background of protestation and distrust of power structures to produce a succession of short, biting historical narratives, distinguished by a tone of ironic exasperation.

One of the most revelatory texts that Vuillard consulted for “An Honorable Exit” was not in any official archive but something he stumbled upon in a secondhand bookstore: a travel guide to Indochina from 1923 that included essential Vietnamese words for French tourists.

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