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Vuillard
[ vwee-yar ]
noun
- (Jean) É·douard [zhah, n, ey-, dwar], 1868–1940, French painter.
Vuillard
/ vɥijar /
noun
- VuillardJean Édouard18681940MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: lithographer Jean Édouard (ʒɑ̃ edwar). 1868–1940, French painter and lithographer
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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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