In Family
1897-1903
Félix Vallotton serves up a delicious slice of bourgeois irony in this sharp 1897 illustration. Titled 'En Famille' (In the Family), it depicts a domestic scene where everyone is physically together but mentally miles apart. A woman, a man, and even a small child are hunched over their respective newspapers—reading radical publications like the anarchist 'Le Libertaire'—completely ignoring the tea set sitting untouched in the center. Vallotton uses bold black shapes to highlight the silence between them. It’s a hilarious yet biting critique of modern alienation, proving that people have been ignoring each other in favor of the news for over a century!
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