The Art of Édouard Vuillard - Claude Debussy Arabesque No. 1 - Franz Schubert Impromptu No. 3

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Beautiful artworks by the wonderful French painter Édouard Vuillard. Music: Claude Debussy, Arabesque No. 1. Franz Schubert, Impromptu No. 3. Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father's death in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to continue his education. In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycée Condorcet. On the advice of his closest friend, Roussel, he refused a military career and joined Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart. There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. In 1887, Vuillard passed the entrance examination for the École des Beaux-Arts. Vuillard kept a private journal from 1888--1905 and later from 1907 to 1940. By 1890, the year in which Vuillard met Pierre Bonnard and Paul Sérusier, he had joined the Nabis, a group of art students inspired by the synthetism of Gauguin.[3] He contributed to their exhibitions at the Gallery of Le Barc de Boutteville, and later shared a studio with fellow Nabis Bonnard and Maurice Denis. In the early 1890s he worked for the Théâtre de l'Œuvre of Lugné-Poe, designing settings and programs. In 1898 Vuillard visited Venice and Florence. The following year he made a trip to London. Later he went to Milan, Venice and Spain. Vuillard also traveled in Brittany and Normandy. Vuillard first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1901 and at the Salon d'Automne in 1903. In the 1890s Vuillard met the brothers Alexandre and Thadée Natanson, the founders of La Revue Blanche, a cultural review. Vuillardʹs graphics appeared in the journal, together with Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Félix Vallotton and others. In 1892, on the advice of the Natanson brothers, Vuillard painted his first decorations ("apartment frescoes") for the house of Mme Desmarais. Subsequently he fulfilled many other commissions of this kind: in 1894 for Alexandre Natanson, in 1898 for Claude Anet, in 1908 for Bernstein, and in 1913 for Bernheim and for the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. In his paintings and decorative pieces Vuillard depicted mostly interiors, towns and gardens. They are often made in the delicate range of blurred colors characteristic of his art. Vuillard was very familiar with interior and domestic spaces. Much of his art reflected this influence, often depicting very intricate patterns and being softly romantic. Edouard Vuillard died in La Baule in 1940.