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| | 1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - 46 - Félix Vallotton |
 | | Félix Vallotton, Verdun, tableau de guerre interprété, projections colorées noires, bleues et rouges, terrains dévastés, nuées de gaz (Verdun Interpreted War Painting, Coloured Black, Red and Blue Projections, Destroyed Lands, Clouds of Gas), 1917, oil on canvas, 114 x 146 cm, Musée de l'Armée, Paris. |
 | | Vallotton came home from his assignments in Argonne and Verdun in the certainty that, whilst it remained possible for the artist to paint the ruins and landscapes of the front, the battle itself posed problems to which he perhaps had no answer. |
 | | He keeps elements of a landscape, perspective, trees on slopes, but the centre of the painting is filled with a symbolic composition - the geometry of the antagonistic "forces". |
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