Vuillard piskal trivial everyday domestic scenes, but he managed to give these scenes an unusually intense emotional tension.
Since 1900, he progressively departs from the Nabi style, its more interested in realism. His recent still lifes and portraits of more than academic, but they are full of the typical emotion for him - in the words of the artist, "written by a man - is to try to catch the sigh of time".
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