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- Bonnard is known for his use of colour. Bonnard liked intense colours. He combined them in his paintings in a completely individual way that gives them great intensity.
- He was part of Les Nabis. Nabis. Learn more about Les Nabis. Bonnard was a member of Les Nabis, a group of artists working at that time. They included artists such as Edouard Vuillard and Paul Serusier.
- He liked painting domestic scenes. Bonnard was known in his earliest years as an Intimist. He had a fondness for domestic interiors that expressed the unusual aspects of everyday life.
- He is famous for his nudes. Bonnard painted many nudes, mainly of his companion and wife Marthe de Méligny. She is often depicted washing or drying herself or, in a few paintings, lying in the bath so that her floating body is magnified by the water.
Mar 13, 2019 · In John Banville’s The Sea, the protagonist, Max, is an art historian writing a monograph of Bonnard. Max constantly compares his own wife, Anna, to de Méligny. Anna has “helpless hands with palms upturned”; de Méligny in the tub, in Max’s supposition, has hands “stilled in the act of supination.”.
Apr 23, 2019 · Thereafter, Bonnard painted even the Normandy countryside with a Mediterranean palette. Most often, as in Dining Room in the Country (1913, Minneapolis Institute of Art), the painter looks out ...
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Jun 8, 2023 · Pierre Bonnard, Twilight, or The croquet game, 1892. Oil on canvas, 130.0 × 162.2 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris Gift of Daniel Wildenstein through the Society of Friends of the Musée d'Orsay, 1985.
The exhibition concentrates on Bonnard’s work from 1912, when colour became a dominant concern, until his death in 1947. It presents landscapes and intimate domestic scenes which capture moments in time – where someone has just left the room, a meal has just finished, a moment lost in the view from the window, or a stolen look at a partner.
Mar 14, 2019 · For Bonnard the painter, the rhythm he could accept as beyond the human was colour – an endless, ever-changing song. The C C Land Exhibition: Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory, is presented in The Eyal Ofer Galleries, Tate Modern, 23 January – 6 May. Curated by Matthew Gale, Curator (Modern Art) and Head of Displays, Tate Modern and ...
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Pierre Bonnard was a member of the Symbolist group of painters known as Les Nabis ("prophets" or "seers"), and so subscribed to the Nabi doctrine of abandoning three-dimensional modeling in favor of flat color areas. However, although Bonnard was a member of this group, he was not interested in obscure Symbolist subject matter and was not a mystic.
