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Chapter 1, Pierre Bonnard, The Art of Making a World
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the art of making a world
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“…beauty is often where you don’t expect to find it; that it is something we may discover and also invent, then reinvent, for ourselves; that the most important things in the world are never as simple as they seem but that the world is also richer when it declines to abide by comforting formulas. And that it is always good to keep your eyes wide open, because you never know what you will discover. The drive to live life more alertly being an instinctive need, whether you are an artist by trade or by desire, the art of seeing well is a necessary skill, which fortunately can be learned.”
Picasso, Le Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
Picasso, Weeping Woman, 1937
Picasso in his studio
“Don’t talk to me about Bonnard. That’s not painting, what he does…Painting isn’t a question of sensibility: it’s a question of
seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with
information and good advice.”
Picasso on Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard in his studio, photographed by Cartier-Bresson
Pierre Bonnard, photographed by Cartier-Bresson
Bonnard, The Breakfast Table, 1930-1
Pierre & Marthe Bonnard, 1920
Pierre Bonnard, Nude in the Bath
Pierre Bonnard, Marthe in the Bathtub
Pierre Bonnard, Marthe in the Bath (detail)
Bonnard, Marthe Entering the Room, 1942
Pierre Bonnard, Jardin Vu De La Terrasse
Bonnard, Woman in a Green Dress in a Garden
Bonnard, Last Self-Portrait, 1944
Joan Mitchell, 1925 – 1992
Mitchell, After April, Bernie, 1987
“We are all vaguely tormented with a desire to know a world which appears to us a dungeon…I should feel as if I could not depart in peace out of this narrow sphere unless I endeavored to explore my prison. The more I examine it, the more beautiful and extensive it becomes in my eyes.”
Astolphe de Custine
Kimsooja, Looking into Sewing
Henry Darger 1892 – 1973
Henry Darger’s home
Henry Darger
Henry Darger
“No work of art is more important than the Christian’s own life, and every Christian is called upon to be an artist in this sense. He may have no gift of writing, no gift of composing or singing, but each man has the gift of creativity in terms of the way he lives his life. In this sense, the Christian’s life is to be an artwork. The Christian’s life is to be a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.”
Theologian Francis A. Schaeffer
Caine’s Arcade, East LA
Caine’s Arcade, East LA