Word: bonnards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Paris museumgoers noted with complacent smiles that most of the exhibition's far-flung artists painted with a Paris accent. Parisians preferred the genuine article, in an upstairs room full of Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard and Rouault...
Jules Remains, marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), was initiated into the august French Academy. He wore the traditional brocaded, green dress suit and the dress sword, but he skipped the traditional speech praising his predecessor. Predecessor Abel Bonnard had been kicked out of the Academy as a collaborationist...
...Bonnard continues to live in his villa, visits Paris infrequently. He is up each day at 5, walks, putters about in his garden, does all his painting after lunch. When unwanted visitors interrupt his work he emerges blandly from his house, announces that "M. Bonnard is out," and shuts the gate...
Using neither palette nor easel, Bonnard mixes his paints on a dinner plate, tacks his canvas on a wall. When a painting is finished, he trims away the extra canvas. Dealers have learned that a Bonnard picture never fits into a ready-made frame...
...where he's going, but I never know where I'll land." Completely unpretentious, he admits to being influenced by other artists: "But that's very good! You can't possibly invent painting all by yourself." Paintings that fail to pan out never discourage Pierre Bonnard. "I always work on paintings that miscarry," he says, "They pose exciting problems. It's good to fail...