![]() As he grew more conventional, Vuillard abandoned such visually engaging habits. They prioritized the abstract and decorative functions of shape and color. As an eager young student, he had helped form les Nabis, a group of progressive artists inspired by Gauguin and the Symbolists. Thus, the current artistic consensus is that his career peaked in his first decade, though he was active for more than forty years. For these, he abandoned his distinctive style and moved to more conventional depictions of objects and space. The physical, though not emotional, diminutiveness, of these early works dissatisfied Vuillard, who used his connections to spend the rest of his lengthy career focusing on large decorative panels. Most of his 1890s output was small, domestic, and feminine as a result of the artist's corset-maker mother's heavy influence on his life. ![]() Vuillard is most famous for indoor scenes such as this, which reveal the details of their subjects' lives in claustrophobic detail. The scraps of cloth and wallpaper create patterns of color and shape as visually arresting as the subject matter. The interplay of those beiges, browns, and reds with the stark, flat pink of the window (a Vuillard hallmark) fills that ambiguous space with intensity. ![]() The stripe of wallpaper that dominates the left third of the composition is ambiguously related to the rest of the room, leaving the viewer to decide their orientation to the subject. The painting seems almost unfinished, since Vuillard left the underlying board exposed in the table, the seamstress' dress, and the wall. A feeling of three-dimensionality is created by the juxtaposition of vividly patterned wallpaper with plain grey walls. ![]() The Seamstress depicts a woman with her back to the viewer, sewing in front of a window. It is a small, intimate image of a woman sewing. The Seamstress is an 1893 oil painting by French artist Édouard Vuillard, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. Painting by Édouard Vuillard The Seamstress ![]()
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