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Félix Vallotton, a star in the art world, was born in the morning light of Lausanne, Switzerland in 1865. In 1882, he crossed the snow-capped Alps and stepped into the romantic embrace of Paris. He absorbed the sweet rain of art in the halls of the Julian Academy and eventually transformed himself into a unique landscape in the French Nabis painting world.
He is not only a magician with his brush, but also a weaver of words, and a defender of the middle class with a clear stance. Vallotton, the artistic rebel, cleverly circumvented the shackles of figure modeling and the brilliant light of post-impressionism radiating from Paris, and took a unique approach. Even in the midst of the Nabis’ gathering, his interior paintings full of repression and subtle hostility were like a sword drawn from its sheath, resolutely breaking away from the ties with the gorgeous visual feasts of Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard and others, showing an almost primitive wild power, but inadvertently revealing a subtle irony of the hypocritical mask of a materialistic society.

As a leader in the field of printmaking, Vallotton in the 1890s used woodcuts as a weapon to deeply analyze and extremely despise the vain outlook on life and endless extravagant hopes of the upper middle class. Every stroke of his woodcut was a profound criticism of social hypocrisy. However, the turn of fate was as absurd as a drama. In 1899, when he married Gabrielle Rodriguez-Henriques, a middle-class lady, the former critic seemed to be melted by the gentleness and integrated into the class he had ruthlessly analyzed.

But Vallotton's artistic soul has never been extinguished. With the keen perspective of a social observer, he still calls himself a peeper of the times, ruthlessly exposing the scars of society - from the undercurrent of unrest to the lack of political justice; from the cracks in the siege of marriage to the complex emotions behind the female nude. His paintings all reveal a profound insight and ruthless analysis of social phenomena, like the brightest stars in the night sky, illuminating the dark corners of human nature.

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