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.
- ISBN10 1556707274
- ISBN13 9781556707278
- Publish Date 1 June 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80
- Language English