Wednesday 23 January 2019

Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory - Tate Modern (23 January - 6 May 2019)

Pierre Bonnard, Nude in the Bath, 1936-8
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory is at Tate Modern (23 January - 6 May 2019)
From the Tate Modern website:

Born 1867, Bonnard was, with Henri Matisse, one of the greatest colourists of the early 20th century. He preferred to work from memory, imaginatively capturing the spirit of a moment and expressing it through his unique handling of colour and innovative sense of composition.

The exhibition concentrates on Bonnard’s work from 1912, when colour became a dominant concern, until his death in 1947. It presents landscapes and intimate domestic scenes which capture moments in time – where someone has just left the room, a meal has just finished, a moment lost in the view from the window, or a stolen look at a partner.

Reviews:
Adrian Searle (The Guardian) "Monumental, monstrous... and rubbish at dogs..."
Mark Hudson (The Telegraph) "Colour elevates the ordinary into the sublime."
Waldemar Januszczak (Sunday Times/blog) "Brightness is not the same thing as brilliance."
Hannah McGivern (The Art Newspaper) "... a 'slow' look at fleeting moments."
Laura Cumming (The Observer) "Scenes from a marriage."
Pierre Bonnard, Window Open on the Seine (Vernon), 1911-12
Pierre Bonnard, Nude Crouching in the Tub, 1918
Pierre Bonnard, Self-Portrait, c1938
Pierre Bonnard, L'atelier au mimosa, 1939-46
Pierre Bonnard, In the Bathroom, c1940
Pierre-Bonnard, Still Life with Bottle of Red Wine, 1942

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