1900
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Corn Fields is a 1900 unspecified by Félix Vallotton, a Post-Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a wide, flat field of corn under a pale sky. The green stalks blur together, and the horizon is just a soft line where land meets clouds. Vallotton painted this in 1900, right when he stopped copying nature exactly. Here, he flattens the scene—no deep shadows or fine details. The shapes feel almost cut from paper, like a puzzle with missing pieces. If you like this quiet, patchwork look, try searching *sfumato*—a technique that softens edges, just like the hazy hills here.
With the change of the century, Vallotton shifted his focus from printmaking to oil painting. Before 1900, the artist concentrated on precisely reproducing the world around him, but as seen in this painting, Vallotton’s work shows hints of ambiguity. The greenery blends together, and the distant horizon is described in simple curves of hills or clouds that fade into the sky.
In 1892, Vallotton joined a circle of French artists known as The Nabis (Prophets) who emphasized decoration, abstraction, and discrete, intimate emotion in their paintings.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Félix Édouard Vallotton (French: ; December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis.
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