Interpreting Bonnard
Color and Light
Nicholas Watkins(Author)
Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-55670-727-8 (ISBN)
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55670-727-8 (9781556707278)
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Person
Nicholas Watkins is the lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Leicester in England.