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ART TIP:My Favorite Moments with Pierre Bonnard

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Lucky me, I had an art day today with my pal, Jan. We visited the Legion of Honor's final week of the Pierre Bonnard Exhibit in San Francisco.





There is just something so magical about seeing art LIVE vis a vis viewing art books and internet viewing. Please treat yourself to LIVE art as often as you can. It's good for the soul.

What I loved the most about this exhibit:
Bonnard's obvious love of animals
His color was often a bit bizarre but masterful compositions made up for it
He started out with a very cool somewhat muted palette in his earlier years (blues and greens)
And ended with so many golds, yellows, red, red oranges, and alizarins later on in his paintings. Quite a temperature journey from cool to warm!
His subjects were almost all very intimate, homey, family and filled with animals.

Least liked:
He did do some very large scale mythological paintings which weren't my personal faves. But as paintings they were still masterful and amazing. And huge!

What did i learn, get inspired by?
Composition, composition, composition. Amazing division of space. My friend Jan says that Diebenkorn was inspired by Bonnard. That figures.

So since his canvases were really quite large, I spent time photographing the smaller elements within the large canvases that I particularly swooned over - faces and furry ones. No big surprise there. I love me a good closeup.

NOTE: Cell phone images with my LG G4 - still waiting for my new pre-ordered Panasonic GX85 camera that has yet to be released. Don't worry, i'll tell you all about it, in fact, you know i'll be positively gushing about it when it arrives.)

Here you go, enjoy my museum day!

First, some figures.... Notice how soft the facial features are. And still so expressive.

My personal favorite painting of the day was an earlier work of Bonnard's entitled The Bourgeois Afternoon. See it here.  I have a few detail shots below.

For a bit more exploring try this wikiart link on Bonnard.

ARTIST INFO:
Pierre Bonnard  - painter, printmaker, photographer
French post-impressionist
b. 1867, d. 1947

three girls in a boat detail from pierre bonnard painting


detial from The Bourgeois Afternoon by Pierre Bonnard

detail from Pierre Bonnard painting

precious little girl detail from pierre bonnard painting

detail from Pierre Bonnard painting

detial from The Bourgeois Afternoon by Pierre Bonnard

detail from pierre bonnard painting

detial from The Bourgeois Afternoon by Pierre Bonnard

detial from The Bourgeois Afternoon by Pierre Bonnard


And now for a few furry friends that show up everywhere in Bonnard's painting. Like everywhere!  His subjects are very subtle so the longer one looks at his paintings the more figures and animals one sees. Magical!

I absolutely must try painting a long legged cat, don't you think??

long legged cat by pierre bonnard

dog and cat by pierre bonnard

subtle tiger kitty detail from pierre bonnard painting

subtle white kitty detail from pierre bonnard painting

tiger kitty detail from pierre bonnard painting

white kitty detail from pierre bonnard painting


**I'm so glad they let you take pics in the museum now!!!!


Blessings and Paint On!
~Joanie
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