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Bonnard Pierre
Bonnard (World of Art)
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Bonnard found early fame among the Nabis, the radical young disciples of Gauguin, and went on with Vuillard to create a new intimist art of psychologically charged interiors. But from 1900 he turned back towards Impressionism, and his art recreates moments of heightened subjectivity, color, and space. His greatest works explore his claustrophobic relationship with Marthe, his wife; in his seventies he also completed some of the most poignant self-portraits in Western art. This new account shows how these beautiful and lyrical pictures sometimes emerged from terrible circumstances. As Bonnard himself wrote shortly before his death in 1947, "one does not always sing out of happiness." Shaped in the 1890s by Mallarm and Symbolism, by Jarry and anarchism, and by the philosophy of Bergson, Bonnard's complex art took on full conviction only in the 1920s. His reassessment over the past thirty years has centered on these extraordinary late pictures, which are among the most enduring images of the twentieth century.
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Not Impressed
The scope of work presented in this book is very wide and complete, the ratio of text to pictures is very satisfying, and the pictures themselves are nice and large. However the quality of the reproductions has not impressed me at all, the colors that Bonnard is so famous for are washed out, and the prints appear blurry. Allover a rather disappointing book.
2008-03-27
| Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 2
BONNARD IS A BIBLE FOR ART LOVERS
Bonnard is hot and getting hotter. You can't pick up a novel without reading that one of the characters either has a Bonnard, is getting ready to steal a Bonnard, or simply desires one. This book has great photos and the biography, which definitely belongs with the art, is extremely well written. This is a fine book and I like it so much that when my son, who is an artist, wanted to borrow it, I simply bought him his own copy. I keep mine for myself. Selfish, but true..and tells you how much I treasure it.
2003-04-20
| Desert Thoughts (Arizona, USA) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5
The Internal Paradise
Nicholas Watkins comprehensive overview of the work of Bonnard deals with the rich interplay between the quiet domesticity and the radiant, transcendental quality of the painter's art. The book covers the early years of Bonnard's work and his use of photography. The phases of the artist's work are covered in clear chapters with references to the excellent reproductions. It is especially helpful to see Bonnard's small, seemingly offhand pencil sketches, alongside the paintings. This gives a sense of the trasformative and magical quality of his observations. The many reproductions are vibrant in comparison to those seen in some other books currently available. Bonnard fell between eras, as a post impressionist, always up against the fame of the cubists, and always compared (unfavorably, and unfairly) with the genius of Picasso. He was a quiet force, a colorist of the highest order, bringing us the light of southern France forever. This book is a great gift for an art lover, a treat for the eyes and the mind.
2000-06-28
| lizziebee (Kirkland WA U.S.A.) | Helpful Votes: 21 | Rating: 4
Bonnard
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Bonnard from A to Z (Artists from A to Z)
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This wholly delightful book, with beautiful pictures, graceful design, and a deft and telling text, is one of four in a new series for children that includes volumes on Chagall and Matisse. Each book lightly skips through the alphabet, teaching a bit of French along the way-- A is for "Avocat" (lawyer)--as it tells the life story of a great artist in brief but vivid glimpses. (The books are translated from the French.) The writing is designed to draw readers (and young listeners) in: "January, 1887. It is extremely cold in the Law School. To warm himself, the professor, sporting an unruly mustache, paces back and forth while he lectures. In the fourth row, a thin, serious student takes notes. He is 20 years old and his name is Pierre--Pierre Bonnard." This you-are-there reportage style sweeps toward the inevitable: Bonnard, whose notebooks contain "more drawings than notes," enrolls in art school. The Harry Potter books have amply demonstrated that children appreciate mellifluous writing, and those who also love art will find both here. In spite of the abbreviated format, no essential is left out. In the Bonnard alphabet, for example, M is for Marthe, who "does not yet know that by entering into Pierre's life she will penetrate to the heart of his work. Henceforth, she will be his only model." Adults who become entranced by this elementary series may go on to more complex biographies of Bonnard, such as Timothy Hyman's. But for a mesmerizing first glimpse into the life of this painter of color and light, Bonnard from A to Z is a treasure. --Peggy Moorman
Pierre Bonnard: The Work of Art, Suspending Time
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Among those painters who incontestably left their mark on twentieth-century art, Bonnard rises to the top again and again. Museums, scholars and viewers regularly return to his oeuvre for reinterpretation, passionate and contradictory, of what it means to be Modern. In having followed a very personal calling--literally and figuratively interior, particularly compared to the work of friends like Matisse--Bonnard created work as innovative as any of his contemporaries'. His recurring themes--the nude (both classical and erotic), the landscape, domestic life, and the self-portrait--evolve with him from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from Paris to the south of France, alive with constant reinvention. Although for Bonnard the subject was always important, his work navigates a sophisticated dialectic between the givens of perception and memory, between the image before our eyes and all that it suggests. This substantial reference includes work from the Hermitage and the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, which sponsored its publication. Contributors include Yve-Alain Bois, Sarah Whitfield, and Georges Roque. Photographs from Dina Verny and Henri Cartier-Bresson among others document the era and Bonnard's models as he saw them.
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perfect!
This is a great book. It has good reproductions and very good articles with great citations. I reccomend it to everyone who is interested in Bonnard's art.
2009-04-14
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
Excellent
For me, and I am not an expert, Pierre Bonnard was the 20th century's greatest artist, not Picasso because Picasso had no tenderness in his painting. This book is a beautiful collection of Bonnard's work, the color plates are superb and the accompanying text is excellent. I highly recommend it.
2008-11-16
(Los Angeles, CA) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5
Wonderful color reproductions
This book makes me want to see a Bonnard "in person"! The publishers did a fabulous job of depicting the dreamy and lush colors of Bonnards paintings. Faintest shades, brush strokes, lines, tiny details -- it's all visible, and everything contributes to the liveliness of the reproductions. It is certainly hard to capture the emotions that a painting exudes in an art book, and I have not often come across such quality prints.
2008-03-27
| Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5
Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
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Working in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (18671947) suffused his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling color. Although his subjects were close at handusually everyday domestic scenesBonnard rarely painted from life. Instead, he made pencil sketches in diaries and relied on these, along with his memory, as he executed the works in his studio. These interiors thus often conflate details from the artist’s daily life with fleeting, mysterious evocations of his past. The spectral figures who appear at the margins of the canvases, overshadowed by brilliantly colored baskets of fruit or other props, create an atmosphere of profound ambiguity and puzzling abstraction: the mundane rendered in a wholly new pictorial language. The 75 paintings, drawings, and watercolors in this volume, some rarely seen treasures from private collections, all made between 1923 and 1947, are central to the ongoing reappraisal of Bonnard as a leading figure of French modernism. (20090501)
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Montreal painter
This show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was stunning and it's a shame that the catalogue is such a stinker. The reproductions are terrible -- nothing like Bonnard's colour. The contrast is super high and the colour is very heightened and garish.
2009-04-24
(Montreal, Quebec) | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 2
mediocre
After seeing the wonderful exhibit at the Met, I was all set to buy this book. What a disappointment. I can't say anything about the text which is probably distinguished, but the Yale U. press and the Met should be ashamed of themselves for the poor quality of these reproductions that aren't even close to better books that suggest the nuances and richness of Bonnard's great paintings. The high price of art books is justified by high quality reproductions. This is not.
2009-04-21
(Philadelphia) | Helpful Votes: 20 | Rating: 1
Disappointing reproductions
A very technical book of a wonderful exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Small reproduction that do not do justice to the paintings that were shown.
2009-04-19
(NY,NY) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 3
Pierre Bonnard: The late still lifes and interiors
Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
Well organized and informative.
The pictures are in very good quality.
2009-03-08
| Artist (Staten Island, NY USA) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5
Bonnard Pierre News
Alex Katz with Phong Bui - Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn Rail, NY - May 08, 2009
Brooklyn RailAlex Katz with Phong BuiI should mention that the Bonnard paintings that I saw at Paul Rosenberg Gallery around 56, 57 changed everything for me because basically, up to that point, all the painters I'd looked at—Picasso, and my teachers—all painted with black lines around
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Norfolk and Norwich Festival Diary: Monday May 11 - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK - May 11, 2009
Norfolk and Norwich Festival Diary: Monday May 11In New York last month I caught the last day of the Late Bonnard show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Great artists - Turner, Monet, Matisse, Pierre Bonnard - can be at their greatest near the end, their vision gaining in poetic power even as their
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ART MARKET WATCH - Artnet
Artnet, NY - May 07, 2009
ART MARKET WATCHLot 20, Pierre Bonnard, Nu devant la glasse ou baigneuse, 1915, est. $800000-$1200000. A naked woman with a cute bum, seen bum side out. The advent of indoor plumbing and showers altered the face of French painting. Bathroom voyeurism changed from a
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The Year of the Elephant: Our cold war with Iran unfolds in Lebanon
شفاف الشرق الأوسط - May 12, 2009
The tailored suits, the loosened ties, the broad hands, the arrangement of tall flowers in the center of the room—the scene had the sunlit inner presence, the radiant sensual completeness, of the world of physical objects as painted by Bonnard or
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A Million Little Pictures: The Pictures Generation Revisited - The Nation.
The Nation., NY - May 14, 2009
A Million Little Pictures: The Pictures Generation RevisitedBarry Schwabsky: Pierre Bonnard's late still lifes, on view at the Met, are lessons in unknowing. Barry Schwabsky: Barbara Guest's Collected Poems showcase her knack for catching sight of time in its act of escaping one's grasp.
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Pierre Bonnard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Met Exhibition - Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors January 27, 2009–April 19, 2009 " ... Works by Pierre Bonnard (public domain in Canada) ...
Pierre Bonnard Biography
From 1891 Pierre Bonnard first showed five of his paintings at the 'Salon des Indépendants' ... Pierre Bonnard died on January 23, 1947. ...
Pierre Bonnard - Artchive
Brief biography.
Pierre Bonnard - Artcyclopedia
Directory to works viewable online.
Pierre Bonnard: Biography from Answers.com
Pierre Bonnard (born Oct. 3, 1867, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Fr. ... The French painter Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was one of the most ... Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) ...
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