Publication

1998-06-01 - Stewart Tabori & Chang

Language

English

Word Count

20,000 words, Guess

Page Count

80 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL8596879M
  • ISBN-139781556707278
  • ISBN-101556707274
  • OCLC Control Number39050295
  • Library of Congress Control Number97062388
and 2 more
  • Goodreads2809873
  • LibraryThing8056670

Classifications

  • LCCND553.B65 W38 1998

Description

Pierre Bonnard was a very private painter who confined his subject matter to his wife, his homes, the surrounding countryside, and his self-portraits. This book provides a concise review of Bonnard's life, key works, and the development of his technique, which began with early work done chiefly in tone, then led to gradual color-enrichment and, finally, to the mastery of light suffusion. Author Nicholas Watkins presents the artist not as a sentimental survivor of Impressionism, as he was often labeled, but as a highly demanding formal artist who transformed light into an emotional atmosphere enveloping the surface within which objects exist.

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