Interpreting Bonnard
Subtitle: Color and Light
Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781556707278
Subjects: History - General; Individual Artist; Art & Art Instruction; Art
Description: 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.