Example sentences for: bonnard

How can you use “bonnard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Two of the very late self-portraits have the wartime blackout curtains pulled aside, as though Bonnard is exposed in more ways than one.

  • All three late paintings of Marthe in the bath--considered by many to be Bonnard's crowning achievements--are on view at MoMA.

  • In some of his bathroom scenes of Marthe, Bonnard marks his own voyeuristic presence at the margins--a knee jutting into the canvas here, a hazy profile there.

  • The decorative panel called (1916-20) gives a taste of this improvisatory and populist side of Bonnard's work, with its hidden animals--a peacock and a monkey, for example, in the tree above the strangely modern-looking Adam's head.

  • Elderfield thinks these bathroom pictures raise most insistently the problems of perception--peripheral vision, scanning rhythms, and so on--that for him are at the heart of Bonnard's art.


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