Word: flaneur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anatomical Outlaw. For a while, Bonnard was a flaneur and sketcher of Paris street life. Lithography, with its kinship to line drawing and its inherent limits of only a few undifferentiated colors, was Bonnard's proving ground. He embellished sheet music and illustrated the writings of Verlaine, Octave Mirbeau and Andre Gide. The flat stone's print only confirmed him as an outlaw toward perspective, modeling and rigorous anatomy...