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The Intimate World of Pierre Bonnard |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: John Loughery |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,112 Words, 6,617 Characters |
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The charms associated with fin-de-siecle Paris continue to delight us after nearly a century. No matter how much contemporary historians may choose to focus on the harsher social realities of the era - the political corruption of the Third Republic, its rabid nationalism, the anti-Semitism of the Dreyfus Affair - nothing seems to lesson the spell of the “Belle Epoque.”
One reason for the extraordinary ongoing interest in the years 1880-1914 is its depiction by such artists as Pierre Bonnard in both his paintings and graphic work, as well as in works of fellow artists like Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Forain, and Vauillard. The art of that era recording the lively Parisian boulevards, cabarets, elegant private dinners, graceful nudes, and pastoral outings created a certain image, ...
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...ding across the street, is designed to remind the viewer of the special role of the spectator of urban life.
As Bonnard once said of himself, he was a man with" a taste for everyday spectacles" and an interest in "drawing emotion from the most humble acts of life." This exhibit of exquisite lithographs and engravings serves to remind us that Bonnard was a visual poet of the first order.
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