The New York Times is running a review, and supplementary slide show, about the artist Pierre Bonnard titled: Bonnard Late in Life, Searching for the Light.Many of the paintings in the slide show depicted meals: a table, food, someone eating; they have words in the titles like Dinner or Breakfast. The reviewer discussed all the pictures with regard to their composition and color. I find the choice of food as a repeated subject (at least in this selection) to be quite interesting.
I love Bonnard. It may be that the palettes pleased him in terms of the variety of food depictions.
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about Bonnard's food paintings, too. He is a tonic in the fast paced world we live in. There's so many undefined areas around his plates of food and tables--he leaves room for us to enter. Love his work.
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