Matthias Waschek: Pierre Bonnard's 'Dining Room In The Country'

French painter Pierre Bonnard's 1913 work, Dining Room in the Country, represents the artist's dining room, along with his wife and cats, at his country house in Vernonnet, a small town outside of Paris on the Seine River. Rather than painting from life, Bonnard created the work entirely from memory, foregrounding his subjective responses over an optical experience of the interior and landscape.
Worcester Art Museum Director Matthias Waschek explores this enigmatic and delightful country scene, loaned to the Museum by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts from October 8, 2015, to May 1, 2016.

[@alternative7361]

Super presentation!

[@eunicelynch3511]

Have been a great admirer of Bonnards work for sooo long ..his almost hesitant marks to show what's in front of him/us...his wonderful use of colour and texture..the pictures of Mart in the bath ....always I can hear that special echo..that movement of water makes when she moves within it...and her total withdrawal of everything whilst she's intent on dressing..almost as if she is completely alone.. in disturbed..these are extremely personal images private...unaware of another presence....quite beautiful...

[@yoginidee]

Fascinating presentation and explanation of these paintings and artists. Thanks

[@lisengel2498]

Thank you for this wonderfull and inspiring presentation

[@lisengel2498]

Thank you so much for this wonderfull journey into looking, wondering and knowing and lookin again and reflecting again - its about subjective perception as a way of hightened awareness of really experiencing

[@zaigvent4136]

Bravo ! très intéressant !

[@lisengel2498]

And it is interesting to watch how effective it is to show a Photo of a painting and let it stay while talking about it. It gives the necessary time o truly watch the painting and at the same time hearing what is being said.

[@vinayseth1114]

5:15 Placing complementary colours of the colour wheel side by side to create a harmonious contrast: what's so peculiar about that? Plenty of European painters of this time were doing this, including Van Gogh. This was the result of the painters' discovery of the research on the colour wheel in the late nineteenth century.

[@MT-2020]

He is beating a dead horse...

[@mairepcod4063]

Thanks,

[@herrbrucvald6376]

if he smacks his lips one more time...........

[@MT-2020]

lol...

[@MT-2020]

holy cow the lady is really distracting...