The Protest

1893 Sheet: 22.9 x 33.5 cm (9 x 13 3/16 in.); Image: 20.4 x 31.9 cm (8 1/16 x 12 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 37.6 x 58.1 cm (14 13/16 x 22 7/8 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.323

Inspired by the flat space, tipped perspective, and use of pattern in Japanese color woodcuts, Vallotton exploited the contrast of rich black ink and the white of the paper for a dynamic image of a mass of figures surging forward as the police break up a political demonstratio...

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