Bonnard’s Legacy HOW DID BONNARD’S CONTRIBUTION AFFECT LATER ARTISTS? Six take-aways about Pierre Bonnard

 Le Nabi Japonnard: he adopted several techniques from Japanese woodblock print artists.

 The intimist: he relied on his wife, family and friends as models.

 The decorator: his early work was intended as decoration as well as artistic expression.

 The colorist: he composed paintings by arranging colors on the canvas.

 The optic adventurer: his paintings provide adventures for vision for the observers.

 The sensationalist: his paintings celebrate sensual experience. Paul Gauguin, photo, 1891

The Yellow Christ, 1889 Gauguin, Manao Tupapau Three Tahitians, 1899 (The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch),1892 Posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Matisse, Woman with a hat, 1905 Matisse, Le Bonheur de vivre, The Joy of Life 1905 – 1906. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Hiroshige, Tokaido Totsuka Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints Bonnard: “Le Nabi Japonnard” Bonnard’s first success, France-Champagne poster, 1889-91 Bonnard, Cover for La Revue Blanche, 1894 Intimite, 1891 Bonnard, The Checked Blouse, 1892 Bonnard, Crepuscule,1892 Bonnard, Femmes au jardin, 1891 Marthe in Montval, in profile, taking off her nightdress, 1900-01 Marthe Standing n the Sunlight, 1900-01 Marthe in the tub, 1908-10 Bonnard, Man and Woman, 1900 Bonnard, Nude against the Light, or Bathroom with Pink Sofa (Nu à contre-jour, or Le Cabinet de toilette au canapé rose), 1908 Bonnard, Vue de port de Saint Tropez, 1911 Bonnard, The open window, 1921. Bonnard, La Table, 1925 Bonnard, Le Bain, 1925 Bonnard, La Toilette, 1931 Bonnard, Nu dans un interieur, 1935 Bonnard, Nu somber (Dina Vierny), 1941- 46 Bonnard, Nu de dos a la toilette,1934 Bonnard, Le Dessert, 1940 Bonnard, L'amandier en fleurs 1946-47 Bonnard, Le Boxeur, 1931 The last self- portrait, 1945 What influence, if any, did Bonnard have on the painters who came later? Hans Hofmann, 1949 Hans Hofmann, Table with Teakettle, Green Vase and Flowers, 1936 Hoffmann, Still Life Interior, 1941 Hoffmann, Cataclysm, 1945 Hoffmann, The garden, 1956 Hoffmann, Rising Moon, 1964 Rothko, Orange, red, yellow, 1962 Simon Schama on encountering Rothko Rothko, Four darks in red, 1956 Mark Rothko, , 1948. FAMSF Two American artists in the tradition of colorists

Willem de Kooning Richard Diebenkorn Willem de Kooning

De Kooning, Seated Male Figure, 1939 deKooning, Woman I, 1952-3 DeKooning, Two Women in the Country, 1954 California Impressionists

William Wendt (1865–1946) Granville Redmond (1871–1935), Armin Hansen (1886–1957), Jean Mannheim (1861–1945), John Marshall Gamble (1863–1957), Franz Bischoff (1864–1929), William Ritschel (1864–1949), Alson S. Clark (1876–1949), Hanson Puthuff (1875–1972), Marion Wachtel (1875–1954), Jack Wilkinson Smith (1873–1949).[ Selden Gile, in his ‘20s

Stinson Beach, 1919 Selden Gile, Still Life with Trees and Mountain, 1919 William Ritschel, The Poet’s Cove William Ritschel, Carmel Highlands, ~ 1921. Richard Diebenkorn: a short biography

• Born in Portland, Oregon in 1922, Diebenkorn moved with his family to San Francisco in 1924.

• Attended Stanford University 1940 to 1942, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, • In 1944, stationed in Virginia, visited The Phillips Collection, saw the paintings of Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne.

• in 1946, D. enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts, studied with David Park

• D. was appointed to the faculty at the California School of Fine Arts in 1947 Diebenkorn bio, continued

• D. had his first one-person show in 1948 at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor • D. awarded an M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1951, then briefly taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana, 1952-53, • In 1953 settled in Berkeley, California

• In 1955 shifted from abstraction to a more representational mode • In 1967, when he returned to abstraction, still-lifes, landscapes and interior figure with a finely tuned sense of color and structure. • Held a position at UCLA (1967), worked in a studio in the Ocean Park, Santa Monica. Richard Diebenkorn 1953- 67

Abstract Expressionists Pop artists – 1960s – 1950s J. Pollock, The Key

W. DeKooning, Woman I

Abstract expressionism RICHARD DIEBENKORN INSCAPE, 1953. influences DIEBENKORN’S LINKS TO OTHER ARTISTS

Henri Matisse, Bay of Nice, 1918, Oil on canvas Edward Hopper, Night Shadows, 1921 R. Diebenkorn, Untitled ca. 1944-45 Berkeley #1, 1953 Oil on canvas; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Untitled (Berkeley), 1954 Ink on paper, Courtesy of Michael Hackett Richard Diebenkorn Urbana #5 (Beach Town), 1953 Oil on canvas Richard Diebenkorn Richard Diebenkorn Urbana #5 (Beach Town), 1953 Berkeley #8, 1954 Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 8. Berkeley #23, 1955 Oil on canvas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Seawall, 1957 Oil on canvas, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Cityscape #1 Cityscape #3, (Landscape #1), 1963 1963, oil on Oil on canvas. canvas. Richard Diebenkorn Ingleside, 1963 , oil on canvas. Woman by the Ocean, 1956, oil Girl on a Terrace, 1956, oil on on canvas. canvas. Interior with View of the Ocean, 1957 oil on canvas. Woman on a Porch, 1958, oil on canvas. Interior with Book, 1959, oil on canvas. Seated Nude, Black Background, 1961, oil on canvas. David Park, Rowboat, 1958 Park, Two Bathers, 1958. FAMSF Park, Couple, 1959. FAMSF Bischoff, Girl with Towel, 1960. FAMSF Elmer Bischoff, Yellow Lampshade, 1969. FAMSF Manual Neri

Neri, Bull Jumper, 1986 Manuel Neri, Seated Girl, Bather, 1960. FAMSF Paul Wonner, Man sitting in living room, 1964 Kathleen Elsey, Matanzas Creek Winery Lavender, 1999 Kathleen Elsey, The Porch, Sunday Morning, 2006 …but it all started with Pierre Bonnard!