Bonnard

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 Mallarme 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.

Author: Timothy Hyman
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 05/17/1998
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.98w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9780500203101
ISBN10: 0500203105
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists | General
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Art | History | Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

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