Example sentences for: bonnard

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

  • You could call the show, after Ingmar Bergman, "Scenes From a Marriage," since Bonnard includes his very clean wife in some 384 paintings.

  • John Elderfield, the curator in charge, has banished some of Bonnard's most popular and beguiling works--Provençal landscapes with red-roofed houses, windows looking out from laden breakfast tables, flowering trees--to the periphery of the show.

  • Critics declare Bonnard's landscapes, nudes, and self-portraits more than dated Impressionism, deeming them "[s]ome of the most extraordinary paintings of his quickly ending century" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). They say that his dreamlike images show a "Proustian" concern with the mechanics of perception and that his later nudes are "tinged with necrophilia" (Francine Prose, the Wall Street Journal ). (MoMA's site serves up a slew of paintings.)

  • The Museum of Modern Art has buried its Pierre Bonnard retrospective in windowless basement galleries.

  • Bonnard is indeed a visually complex artist, whose constant experimenting with peculiar compositional schemes--especially his habit of concealing figures on the margins of his paintings--requires patient and prolonged viewing.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast