http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/ Copyright 2006 Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:57:20 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype//?v=1.03 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Bonnard was certainly not the only artist of the late nineteenth century to be influenced by Japanese woodblock prints. The Japonisme movement swept through Paris and the rest of the art world with the opening of Japan for trade.... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2005/01/other_japanesei.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2005/01/other_japanesei.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:57:20 -0500 Bonnard was profoundly influenced by Japanese woodblock prints. These three prints are examples of the types he would have had access to in Paris in the 1890s, Utamaro being an artist particularly familiar to European circles. These prints all... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2005/01/japanese_prints.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2005/01/japanese_prints.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:56:54 -0500 Many people argue that Bonnard was not truly a colorist until his move from Paris to the South of France. While it is apparent that his naissance as a colorist occurred in conjunction with his exposure to Japanese woodblock prints... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2005/01/bonnard_in_the.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2005/01/bonnard_in_the.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:56:34 -0500 France-Champagne was Bonnard's first major Japanese-inspired work, created between 1889 and 1891. A lithograph advertisement for champagne, it was also his first major success as a commercial artist: the 100 francs that he was awarded for its execution provided... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2005/01/bonnards_first.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2005/01/bonnards_first.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:55:40 -0500 I am a freshman at Princeton University. I created this site as part of Dr. Kay Chubbuck's writing seminar, Impressionism and The Making of Modern Art. I undecided about my major, but am considering majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/about_the_autho.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/about_the_autho.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:18:30 -0500 Special acknowledgements are due to my peer editors, Mike Snyder and Raphael Haziot, who both gave invaluable advice for revising the essay that provided the basis for the text of this website. I. Paintings Bonnard, Pierre. Checked Blouse. 1892. Private... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/works_cited.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/works_cited.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:18:16 -0500 And so, Returning to Bonnard's 1912 work, Dining Room In the Country, we see that this shocking use of color is not, as the Terrasses suggest, solely a product of his move to the South of France. On the... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/conclusion.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/conclusion.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:09:49 -0500 As the decade progressed, Bonnard began to develop his use of color beyond a method of logically organizing a painting into a way of anchoring a scene in reality, a technique vital to the success of his later, more... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/color_an_anchor.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/color_an_anchor.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:00:33 -0500 Like in Checked Blouse, in The Croquet Game (1892), Bonnard's development as a colorist is apparent in his use of color as an organizational tool, but the scene depicted here is more complex than his previous subjects of a... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/colorism_on_a_l.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/colorism_on_a_l.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:57:29 -0500 It was this central element of color that led to his later, more thorough exploration of color in his subsequent paintings of the 1890s, in conjunction with the increasing presence of Japanese compositional techniques in his work. By 1892,... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/color_as_logic.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/color_as_logic.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:51:22 -0500 As we can see in Young Woman at the Piano, Bonnard's initial reaction to the Japanese prints had been an appreciation for the strong blocks of color, a simple passion which helped him to recognize the importance of color... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/compositional_v.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/compositional_v.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:46:30 -0500 As such, Bonnard's development as a colorist is evident as early as 1890 in his work of that year Young Woman at the Piano, created soon after his introduction to the Japanese prints. In this work, we can see... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/early_influence.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/12/early_influence.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:35:53 -0500 Before we can discuss the influence of Japanese prints on Bonnard's art, we must first examine the broader context of the Japanese art craze in Paris, dubbed Japonisme in 1872 by the French art critic, collector, and printmaker Phillippe... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/11/page_one.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart1/2004/11/page_one.html Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:28:09 -0500