Pierre Bonnard Quotes
I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.
Rewald, John. Pierre Bonnard. Museum of Modern Art, 1948, p. 38.
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, illustrator, and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. 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 Hokusai and other Japanese artists. He was a leading figure in the transition from impressionism to modernism. He painted landscapes, urban scenes, portraits and intimate domestic scenes, where the backgrounds, colors and painting style usually took precedence over the subject.
