Bonnard Colour & Light
Title | Bonnard Colour & Light PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Watkins |
Publisher | Tate |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1998-02 |
Genre | Art |
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Published to coincide with an exhibition of Pierre Bonnard's work at the Tate Gallery in London (12th February - 17th May 1998) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (24th June - 29th September 1998), this is a concise illustrated survey of Bonnard's use of colour and light. It reviews his life and work, and sets out to show, through an analysis of key works, how his technique and working methods developed over 50 years.
Interpreting Bonnard
Title | Interpreting Bonnard PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Watkins |
Publisher | Stewart, Tabori, & Chang |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
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Pierre Bonnard was a very private painter who confined his subject matter to his wife, his homes, the surrounding countryside, and his self-portraits. This book provides a concise review of Bonnard's life, key works, and the development of his technique, which began with early work done chiefly in tone, then led to gradual color-enrichment and, finally, to the mastery of light suffusion. Author Nicholas Watkins presents the artist not as a sentimental survivor of Impressionism, as he was often labeled, but as a highly demanding formal artist who transformed light into an emotional atmosphere enveloping the surface within which objects exist.
Bonnard
Title | Bonnard PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Watkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
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In fact Bonnard began his career as a graphic artist, producing posters and illustrations for such magazines as La Revue Blanche. Associated with Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard and other members of the Nabis group from 1890, his early work is characterized by a tendency towards broad, flat colour and asymmetrical composition derived from Gauguin and from Japanese prints. From 1900 his palette became richer and his subject-matter settled into a range of obsessive themes - principally landscapes, nudes and interiors - in which he explored ever more complex formal problems and developed an unparalleled mastery of colour and light. His mature work achieves a level of dazzling intensity which has ensured his enduring reputation as one of the twentieth century's great colourists.
Pierre Bonnard
Title | Pierre Bonnard PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Bonnard |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Interior architecture in art |
ISBN | 1588393089 |
"The vibrant late paintings of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) are considered by many to be among his finest achievements. Working in a small converted bedroom of his villa in the south of France, Bonnard suffused his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling color. Although his subjects were close at hand-usually everyday scenes taken from his immediate surroundings, such as the dining room table being set for breakfast, or a jug of flowers perched on the mantelpiece - Bonnard rarely painted from life. Instead, he preferred to make pencil sketches in small diaries and then rely on these, along with his memory, once in the studio." "This volume, which accompanies the first exhibition to focus on the interior and related still-life imagery from the last decades of Bonnard's long career, presents more than seventy-five paintings, drawings, and works on paper, many of them rarely seen in public and in some cases, little known. Although Bonnard's legacy may be removed from the succession of trends that today we consider the foundation of modernism, his contribution to French art in the early decades of the twentieth century is far more profound than history has generally acknowledged. In their insightful essays and catalogue entries the authors bring fresh critical perspectives to the ongoing reappraisal of Bonnard's reputation and to his place within the narrative of twentieth-century art."--Jacket
Bonnard
Title | Bonnard PDF eBook |
Author | Antoine Terrasse |
Publisher | New Horizons |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Painters |
ISBN | 9780500301036 |
In this book, Antoine Terrasse explores Pierre Bonnard's art from the first ambitious still-life studies to the powerful late self-portraits. 'Bonard - the colour of daily life' illustrates over 180 paintings, drawings, poster designs, letters and photographs from Bonnard's life and work, and offers insights into one of the most complex and enigmatic artists of the 20th century.
Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision
Title | Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Whelan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2022-05-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300258868 |
An unparalleled reassessment of Pierre Bonnard, exploring his paintings, drawings, photography, and prints As one of the founders of the post-Impressionist group the Nabis, French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) is frequently seen as a transitional figure between the Impressionists and modernists. This beautifully illustrated book offers a fresh interpretation, revealing the artist's central concern with expanding representation beyond the limits of natural vision. The result is a new understanding not only of Bonnard but of modernism itself. Exploring how Bonnard's dazzling domestic scenes and landscapes reimagine perception, embodiment, and the passage of time, Lucy Whelan characterizes him as a painter of unusual insight in his consideration of the relationship between vision and representation. The book covers Bonnard's paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints, with special focus on his later works from the 1920s to his death in 1947, and draws on an in-depth study of the artist's diaries, interviews, and other written sources. A groundbreaking reassessment, Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision presents an artist engaged in avant-garde forms of experimentation who complicated vision in innovative ways.
Bonnard: Colour and Light
Title | Bonnard: Colour and Light PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781854372390 |