Pierre Bonnard The Breakfast Room

The painter lived a long life and created a lot of works.

Pierre bonnard the breakfast room. Early in his career bonnard painted with a group of artists called les nabis or the prophets who explored a liminal world that blended fauvist color with the symbolist fascination with ancient cultic religion and metaphor. It was created in 1930 1931. Pierre bonnard may 10 sep 6 1948 xxvth anniversary exhibition. 3 october 1867 23 january 1947 was a french painter illustrator and printmaker known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.

In 1912 pierre bonnard bought a country house called ma roulotte my caravan at vernonnet a small town on the seine. Summary of pierre bonnard. Pierre bonnard was a french painter. Painting and sculpture from the museum collection may 27 1964 2 other works identified.

He was a founding member of the post impressionist group of avant garde painters les nabis and his early work was strongly influenced by the work of paul gauguin and the prints of. As for the medium this is oil on canvas. A keen observer of the mundane routines of domestic life bonnard simultaneously conveys both familiar intimacy and isolating distance in the shared space of this cheerful breakfast room. However although bonnard was a member of this group he was not interested in obscure symbolist subject matter and was not a mystic.

Pierre bonnard was a member of the symbolist group of painters known as les nabis prophets or seers and so subscribed to the nabi doctrine of abandoning three dimensional modeling in favor of flat color areas. Pierre bonnard painted 60 dining room scenes in the two decades before his death in 1947 and they are a strange discomforting collection indeed. The breakfast room is one of his most known paintings. The painting is now a part of the collection of the moma.

The dining room in the country was created in 1913 by pierre bonnard in intimism style. Paintings from the museum collection oct 19 1954 feb 6 1955 1 other work identified art in a changing world. Pierre bonnard french 1867 1947 dining room overlooking the garden the breakfast room 1930 31 oil on canvas 62 x 44 159 6 x 113 8 cm the museum of modern art new york given. While the vantage point implies a place for the viewer across from the seated woman the austere jutting wedge of the white tablecloth and the placement of the basket of fruit set her apart.

Bonnard resolutely painted subjects such as those in dining room on the garden grande salle à manger sur le jardin 1934 35 for most of his life being called très japonard very japanese like for his attempts to create a charged psychological moment in a virtually non perspectival domestic space reminiscent of japanese prints. Bonnard who considered himself the last of the impressionists emphasized the expressive qualities of bright colors and loose.