“Bonnard developed an early obsession with color through his affiliation with the Nabis, a group of avant-garde artists working in fin-de-siècle Paris. These young painters, who included amongst their ranks Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard and Paul Sérusier, were specifically inspired by the examples of Post-Impressionists like Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. The Nabis went even further than their predecessors in embracing the two-dimensionality of the canvas; collectively, they sought to reinvent modern French painting through radical color and forms.”
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“As Dita Amory has written of Bonnard’s work, “It was through color, not line, that pictures took hold in his imagination…Bonnard’s colors came to embody the emerging, meeting, and passing of forms in the transient world, whose components he turned into shapes and planes of saffron red, gold light, and violet shadows” (“The Presence of Objects: Still Life in Bonnard’s Late Paintings,” Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, p. 22-23).”
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Pierre Bonnard at The Art Story
Bonnard, Pierre, Colta Feller Ives, Helen Emery Giambruni, and Sasha M. Newman. 1989. Pierre Bonnard, the graphic art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15324coll10/id/92079 , (accessed 8 Nov 2018).
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At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 
The spring has not yet arrived, but listening to these beautiful nocturnes gives me a sense of preparation. Thank you!🙏🤗💥💖
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Oh, but it is so close, Aladin! lol 🙂🌻🦋
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When I first glanced at the painting, I thought she was texting on a cell phone. Of course, that would not have been possible during the artist’s life. I have seen my grandchildren all too often on their phones at meals. It is funny how expectations color how I see art.
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It is hard to remember a time without cell phones. I confess to having a love/hate relationship with my own. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Don. 🙂
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Bonnard’s painting reminds us to slow down and enjoy the simple, everyday things. Sipping tea for the sake of “just” sipping tea, for example. 👍
We enjoyed the musical selections, too: especially the first concerti of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and Brandenburg’s Concertos Nos 1 and 4.
Your posts are always uplifting.
Thank you!
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I am happy you enjoy this, Dee. Thanks for your lovely comment. Now I need a nice cup of tea! lol 😎
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Brilliant colours in this. I do like a good Bonnard!
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So do I, Andy. His unique style is like no other. 🙂
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