Bonnard is considered a post-impressionist, and for a time was a seminal member of "Les Nabis". A group that included one of my favorite artists (Edouard Villard). The thing that characterizes Bonnard's work in my mind are his use of somewhat garish colors and a general flattening of the images by a selective use of contrasting colors. He often includes women in his compositions, but most significantly melds their forms into the images so as to de-emphasize their presence in an almost ghostly way. At the same time, whenever, and there often is, a dog in the painting, you can see it pretty readily! There has got a thesis paper on this written somewhere.
"Luncheon Table"
by Pierre Bonnard
1867-1947, FRENCH
"Woman with a Bowl of Fruit"
by Pierre Bonnard
1867-1947, FRENCH
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