Friday
Sep082006
Bonnard as a Painter's Painter
Friday, September 8, 2006 at 7:24PM After the Denver Art Museum Show of Bonnard's work, a friend who is a fundraiser and a friend who is a sculptor and Creative Director called Bonnard a Teir II Painter shown in a Teir I Facility. My thought was he was a painter's painter. He reinvented how to paint with his own perspective, luminosity of color, points of emphasis and turned mundane into lyrical. What are your thoughts?
Reader Comments (4)
He is most definitely THIS painter's painter!! I spent 9 hours at his show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris a couple of years ago, unable to tear myself away from the 90 works on show. I wanted to cry at the bookstore afterwards, when I compared what I had just seen, to the colour reproductions of his work in books. Pitiful!! One has to stand in front of Bonnard's work and allow the eye and brain to be seduced, to appreciate the genius of this very underrated painter. I feel so lucky to be having the very first Bonnard Museum open next year down the road from me in Le Cannet and intend to make it my second home!!
Yes, Lynn. You are lucky to have the a Bonnard Museum coming right down the Road. I have never been to Europe. Even more than to see museums in Paris I thought going to see the Bonnards would be most important. They are so magical and what he did with pigment is astonishing.
As you say - astonishing! If ever you treat yourself to a trip to Cannes, look me up. Any fan of Bonnard is a friend of mine :)
Lynn, Your last comment was sent to me but for some reason didn't publish. So thank you for the invite to look you up in Cannes. That would be a wonderful dream to hold.