Pierre Bonnard: Early and Late
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.49 (978 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0856675563 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"The Prophet" according to medfair. It is always difficult to review art books. Does one review the artist and his art, or is it really a review of the art book proper? Bonnard, the best of the Nabis (Prophets), is a very intimate painter. Most of his art represents small slivers of home reality. A woman in her bath, or at a table with her dog, apple picking in orchard, two women talking in the lush garden. The pictures are vibrant with color and small but so happy hours of a good life, nevertheless mixed with gentle longing, perhaps intimating that all this has eventually to end. Bonnard is delightful, optimistic and good natured like Matis. "Good Book on an Underrated Painter" according to Peter Stephens. "Early and Late" is the book that accompanied the Phillips Collection's 2002 exhibit on Bonnard's early and late works. The exhibitition was beautiful. The book, of course, doesn't do justice to the colors in the originals, but the book's prints, particularly the details, are very good.The book includes a chronology of Bonnnard's life, three excellent essays, and some notes from Bonnard's journals. One essay discusses Bonnard's innovations, especially early on and especially his use of photography as a way to prepare for his paintings. Another essay shows how Bonnard's paintings were influenced by his refo. "Phillip's staff has it right" according to Winston hough. This is one of the best books on Bonnard the color repros are good and sometimes enlarged Besides Antoine Terrase's book" drawing to color "this book shows how Bonnard worked up his paintings from little drawings from a daily diary he used as a sketchbook.The photos shows Bonnard's studio in Le Cannet.Also,Some of his shots of nudes. It has repros found in few other books. I have Bonnard books stemming from the MOMA exhibit after WW11 by John Rewald, Another book that had rare color repros was Bonnard edited by R.J. Beer.This is a good buy and a worthwhile study of the work. Winston Hough
About the AuthorDr Elizabeth Hutton Turner is Senior Curator of Art at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.The contributors: Ursula Perucchi-Petri is Curator of the Museum of Villa Flora, Winterthur; Nancy Coleman Wolsk is Associate Professor of Art History at Transalvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.
Dr Elizabeth Hutton Turner is Senior Curator of Art at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.The contributors: Ursula Perucchi-Petri is Curator of the Museum of Villa Flora, Winterthur; Nancy Coleman Wolsk is Associate Professor of Art History at Transalvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.
This major presentation of the work of Pierre Bonnard follows a new line of enquiry reconciling what has previously been seen as two distinct early and creative periods: the Nabis or symbolist Bonnard and the later so-called Impressionist or colorist Bonnard. Above all, the book demonstrates Bonnard's overriding and lifelong interest in colour. Three introductory essays explore diverse aspects of Bonnard's work: his aesthetic innovations in light and colour stemming from inventions in photography and film; the influence of Japonisme in his early and late work; and the critical role played by Bonnard's early formative