This solo exhibition marks the artist’s first in Louisiana and is guest curated by V\u00e9ronique Serrano, director of the Mus\u00e9e Bonnard in France.<\/p>\n
Pierre Bonnard: Landscapes from Le Cannet\u00a0<\/em>features 24 selected works on loan from the collection of the Mus\u00e9e Bonnard in France. It includes 17 drawings, 6 paintings and a lithograph that were created late in the artist\u2019s career. Primarily focusing on Bonnard\u2019s landscapes, this exhibition celebrates his vision of Le Cannet\u2014which is notable not only as Bonnard\u2019s home, but is uniquely distinguished as Lafayette\u2019s sister city in France. The Hilliard Museum is the exclusive venue for this exhibition.<\/p>\n Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was unquestionably a master of 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century painting and a key actor in\u00a0Les Nabis<\/em>\u00a0movement. He was born in the Fontenay-aux-Roses suburb of Paris and enrolled in the Acad\u00e9mie Julian in 1887 to study painting. In the fall of 1888 he and two like-minded colleagues, Maurice Denis and Paul Serusier, formed\u00a0Les Nabis,\u00a0<\/em>an avant-garde painting group. Basing their name on the Hebrew word for \u201cprophets\u201d, this group was inspired by the Symbolist approach of painter Paul Gauguin\u2014in which color served a spiritual, rather than descriptive, function.<\/p>\n After meeting Toulouse-Lautrec in 1891, Bonnard exhibited at the\u00a0Salon des<\/em>\u00a0Ind\u00e9pendents\u00a0<\/em>where his work was received with great success for the first time. In that year he also shared a studio space with painter \u00c9douard Vuillard. In 1896 Bonnard\u2019s first solo exhibition was presented at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. By 1912 he purchased property in the Normandy region of France where he lived with his life-long partner and muse, Marthe, and made frequent visits to Claude Monet in Giverny.<\/p>\n After making annual visits to Le Cannet for many years, Bonnard acquired a villa which he called\u00a0Le Bosquet<\/em>, or \u201cthe grove\u201d in 1926. This location became his primary home and studio during the last decade of his life. The house is one source of inspiration for the works in this exhibition. Le Cannet is where his explorations of light and color intensify. After capturing his first impressions of the landscape as energetic sketches on paper, Bonnard then translated those marks to color in his paintings back at the studio\u2014achieving a oneness with nature, light, color and paint.<\/p>\n The Hilliard University Art Museum is grateful to Mayor Mich\u00e9le Tabarot and the Mus\u00e9e Bonnard, Le Cannet, France for allowing us to present this exhibition of works from their permanent collection.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This solo exhibition marks the artist’s first in Louisiana and is guest curated by V\u00e9ronique Serrano, director of the Mus\u00e9e Bonnard in France.<\/p>\n Pierre Bonnard: Landscapes from Le Cannet features 24 selected works on loan from the collection of the Mus\u00e9e Bonnard in France. It includes 17 drawings, 6 paintings and a lithograph that were created late in the artist\u2019s career. Primarily focusing on Bonnard\u2019s landscapes, this exhibition celebrates his vision of Le Cannet\u2014which is notable not only as Bonnard\u2019s home, but is uniquely distinguished as Lafayette\u2019s sister city in France. The Hilliard Museum is the exclusive venue for this exhibition.<\/p>\n Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was unquestionably a master of 20th century painting and a key actor in Les Nabis movement. He was born in the Fontenay-aux-Roses suburb of Paris and enrolled in the Acad\u00e9mie Julian in 1887 to study painting. In the fall of 1888 he and two like-minded colleagues, Maurice Denis and Paul Serusier, formed Les Nabis, an avant-garde painting group. 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The house is one source of inspiration for the works in this exhibition. Le Cannet is where his explorations of light and color intensify. 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