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The French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) started his career with a group of like-minded painters like Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier, Gabriel Ibels, Paul Ranson and Ker-Xavier Roussel among others who formed a secret group called The Nabis in 1888 who based their developing style on the tenets of symbolism earning the nickname, ‘pictorial symbolists’. The Nabis may have disbanded in 1900 with each member developing his own aesthetic style but their association left a lasting impact on their work. However, the enduring influence of this artistic society and by association, of symbolism, as seen in Pierre Bonnard’s later work (1920-1947) has been largely unnoticed or hardly given any due credit. This paper seeks to demonstrate how symbolist themes like the exploration of inner experience, dreams and the role of imagination in the quest for the Absolute recur in his later work. This symbolist aesthetic informed his style as he sought to shift from pure representation to abstraction. This paper seeks to establish how Bonnard’s later intimist work which was produced in Normandy and Le Cannet is imbued with deeply personal metaphors as he creates an oneiric world. Given the early Nabi influence in Bonnard’s work, a symbolist approach shall be applied to study his later paintings created between 1920 and 1947 to establish that the Nabi period had been a major force in the development of his later intimist style.
Keywords:
Bonnard, Nabis, Symbolism, Intimism, 20th Century, French Painting
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"Pierre Bonnard`s World: A Symbolist Perspective", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no.1015 - 1024, June-2022, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2206163.pdf
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