Pierre Bonnard The Breakfast Room

The dining room in the country was created in 1913 by pierre bonnard in intimism style.

Pierre bonnard the breakfast room. He was born in 1867. 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. 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. 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.

However although bonnard was a member of this group he was not interested in obscure symbolist subject matter and was not a mystic. Painting and sculpture from the museum collection may 27 1964 2 other works identified. Pierre bonnard painted 60 dining room scenes in the two decades before his death in 1947 and they are a strange discomforting collection indeed. Pierre bonnard may 10 sep 6 1948 xxvth anniversary exhibition.

This painting shows the dining room there with cats perching on the chairs and marthe de méligny the artist s wife leaning on the windowsill. He traveled a lot and had a number of exhibitions. It was created in 1930 1931. 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.

The painting is now a part of the collection of the moma. The breakfast room is one of his most known paintings. In 1912 pierre bonnard bought a country house called ma roulotte my caravan at vernonnet a small town on the seine. As for the medium this is oil on canvas.

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. Paintings from the museum collection oct 19 1954 feb 6 1955 1 other work identified art in a changing world. 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 who considered himself the last of the impressionists emphasized the expressive qualities of bright colors and loose.

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