Word: bonnards
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...buried under the assembly-line charm of his later output. (And perhaps also to bring in the crowds.) Did he oversupply the world with purple cows? He did. But he was also a great and original artist, one who could produce work as deeply gratifying as any Bonnard, as inventive as any wriggle by Miro...
Though Rothko is traditionally regarded as the inheritor of Matisse’s mantle for his use of color, Glimcher compared him instead to Pierre Bonnard. He said the idea came when he remembered a conversation about color he had with Rothko: “He said, ‘Sure, Matisse is great, but if you are really interested in color, you should look to Bonnard,’” Glimcher said...
Though Rothko is traditionally regarded as the inheritor of Matisse for his use of color, Glimcher had the idea of comparing him instead to Pierre Bonnard. He said the idea came when he remembered a conversation about color he had with Rothko. “He said, ‘Sure, Matisse is great, but if you are really interested in color, you should look to Bonnard,’” Glimcher said...
...wandering the Quartier Latin and the narrow, flea-market streets of Montmartre. In the last twenty-five years alone, Paris has seen the sculptures of Rodin, the ballerinas of Degas, the water lilies of Monet, the dreamy Provencal mountains of Cezanne--not to mention to paintings of Manet, Seurat, Bonnard, Renoir and many more. Meanwhile, Toulouse-Lautrec is presiding over the Moulin Rouge nightclub, Paul Gauguin has taken ship for Tahiti and set about painting the native girls--and poor, mad Van Gogh is only ten years in the grave...
...America, where Picasso ruled supreme among Modernists, this must have seemed heretical. And even more so was Phillips' rapturous appreciation of Pierre Bonnard, whom he prized as much as he did Matisse, while most American pundits were dismissing him as a very delayed Impressionist. In the end, the Phillips Collection was to own the finest group of Bonnards in America, and one can easily see their influence pervading the American artists who saw them: how Bonnard's fierce but modulated color and his love of diagonal cuts in the scaffolding of his compositions affected young Richard Diebenkorn, for instance, when...