A style based on meditated painting, with the incisive use of color

What PIERRE BONNARD painted at the end of the nineteenth century, placed emphasis on the intimate affections of the characters, and on the visions of Parisian glimpses embellished with vital human presences. His stylistic models are some of Gauguin’s works and Japanese prints, because they allowed him to deform reality, charging it with symbolic meanings. His way of working was inspired by the occult sciences and by magic, away from realism, until he reached symbolist painting. In 1888 – after graduating in law – he decided to devote himself to painting, following in Paris the courses of the Julian Academy and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkhPu2-o6Y

2/3 – He was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, a city located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine (Île-de-France region). Together with Paul Sérusier, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson had formed the group of Nabis (the group of the inspired), with whom he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. His way of working is a style based on meditated painting, with the incisive use of color. In the last years of the nineteenth century PIERRE BONNARD had also dedicated himself to theatrical sets, with lithographs and illustrations characterized by figures that refer to Japanese models and art nouveau. From 1900 on, he had made numerous trips, looking for new subjects. His pictorial language is different from that of contemporaries Matisse and Kandinsky, because he had wanted to overcome them in their naturalistic impressions of color. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKuopZH3UI

In the French Riviera, PIERRE BONNARD had bought a house in Le Cannet in 1926, loving its landscape as if it were paradise. The colors of his palette are more intense and lively. In this environment he intensified his interest in intimate settings, and for female nudes. He reached the symbiosis between figurative narrative and vital rhythm, dying in that place after having crossed the finish line of 79 years, leaving “L’Amandier en fleurs”, his last painting, not completely finished. Among the museums that exhibit his works, the Bonnard Museum in Le Cannet, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.

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