Pierre Bonnard painted what he found good—the sunny pleasures of the middle class, the intimacy of the kitchen (and the bath and the bedroom), pets, children, pretty women, flowering fruit trees, bountiful tables, luxuriant gardens—and his art evokes pure happiness with its intense, vibrant colors. There is formal pressure in Bonnard’s paintings as well: of shape against shape, of light against dark; the edges of his canvases compress and give life to their surfaces. Bonnard (1867-1947) once said, “The best things in museums are the windows,” and his images are often framed as if seen through a window--an effect that is emphasized by their explosive light and color, as if the summer sun is in the painted landscape and we see it from a cool, shadowed room. Bonnard’s work changed little in the last forty years of his life. Two world wars passed as if unnoticed while he painted his gardens, calm seas, and pregnant skies, intent on the goal of showering us with color and showing us a world that is a perfectly fine place to live in. The paintings reproduced in this folio are in the Phillips Collection, holder of America’s largest and most diverse array of works by Pierre Bonnard. Ten full-color blank notecards (5 each of 2 styles) with envelopes in a decorative folio. ISBN: 0-7649-3614-X. |
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5 x 7" blank note card with envelope. | | 5 x 7" blank note card with envelope. |
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