Tag Archives: Maurice Denis

BONNARD & LIBERATED FROM GRAVITY: ENDLESS SUMMER

The intense freshness of “the first moving instant vision” provoked by an object. But actually to copy that object increased the distance from that vision. There is always the danger,Pierre Bonnard felt, of the artist’s becoming caught by the incidentals … Continue reading

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THE SIMPLE SEER: “FIRST” Possession of a Moment

Human monocular and bifocal vision is very different to the action of the camera lens. In fact, Bonnard’s paintings get much more complex spatially when he gives up using the camera around 1920, and relies more and more on his … Continue reading

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NONE OF THE ABOVE

”Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”  Having presented the questions so handsomely, in his greatest painting, it hardly seems to matter that Paul Gauguin had none of the answers. To look for allegorical meanings … Continue reading

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