Varotton: kuro to shiro

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"Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and while based in Paris, he pursued a career as an artist from the late 19th to the early 20th century. Vallotton is known as a member of the Nabis, an avant-garde art group, but he also made a huge impact both in France and Europe as a whole with his monochrome woodcut prints. As an outsider (étranger) who straddling two different cultures, Swiss and French, Vallotton established a unique style in woodcuts as he fluctuating back and forth between a variety of conflicts and contradictions such as paintings and prints, men and women, and dreams and reality. Rich in satire and humor, Vallotton's perspective and design sensibility, distinguished by a skillful manipulation of the contrast between black and white, remain just as fresh today as they did then. The Mitsubishi. Ichigokan Museum contains one of the world's leading collections of Vallotton's prints, numbering some 180 works. This exhibition, a comprehensive selection of Vallotton's works, including his most notable series, introduces the manifold charms of the artist's printmaking. In addition, we present prints by other Nabi artists from the museum collection as well as an exhibit comparing the works of Vallotton and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which was made possible through the special cooperation of the Muse Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France. While conveying the conditions of the era's Parisian art scene, the exhibition also sheds light on Vallotton's individuality."-- Foreword.

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エッセイ. 領域としての黒 / 平野啓一郎 -- エッセイ. ヴァロットンのこと / 江國香織 -- 版画家フェリックス・ヴァロットン「初めに線ありき」 = Félix Vallotton graveur : "Au commencement était la ligne" / カティア・ポレッティ = Katia Poletti -- 「外国人のナビ」ヴァロットン / 杉山菜穂子 -- 1. 「外国人のナビ」ヴァロットン―木版画制作のはじまり = Félix Vallotton, the foreign Nabi : starting to make woodblock prints -- 2. パリの観察者 = An observer in Paris -- 3. ナビ派と同時代パリの芸術活動 = The Nabis and Parisian art of the era -- 4. アンティミテ：親密さと裏側の世界 = Intimités and the other side of the world -- 5. 空想と現実のはざま = Between fantasy and reality -- 特別関連展示　ヴァロットンとロートレック　女性たちへの眼差し = Vallotton and Toulouse-Lautrec : views of women.