Long live painting Back, postcard from Henri Matisse to Pierre Bonnard, 13 August 1925, private collection …
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It’s not a matter of painting life. It’s a matter of giving life to paint. Bonnard, as quoted in Timothy Hyman’s ‘Bonnard’ …
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I stand in a corner of the room, near to this table bathed in sunlight. The eye sees distant masses as having an almost linear aspect, without relief, without depth. But near objects rise up towards it. The sides trail away. And these shifts are sometimes rectilinear - for what is distant; sometimes …
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Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. Bonnard …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/07/20/painting-has-to-get-back-to-its-original-goal/