I went to the Pierre Bonnard exhibition at the Tate this week and found it really inspiring, a lot of what I took away from it was excitement at his use of colour and paintwork but I also loved his composition and the repeated use of pattern in his works. Certain compositions came up again and again – use of mirrors and windows to show a picture within a picture, and table scenes so that lots of his paintings had big broad shapes across them breaking them up. Various table scenes included beautiful bold patterned table cloths and I thought again about how I could introduce pattern into my work. The more interesting compositions were also a reminder of how I should be continuing to push myself with my subject matter.
Works to look at again:
Young woman in the garden (use of colour)
Mirror above a washstand (composition)
Coffee (pattern)
The checkered tablecloth (pattern, still life)
Open window yellow wall (colour, composition)
The table (subject)
Landscape at le cannard (scale, landscape, colour)
Nude in the mirror (colour, composition)
The Garden (colour, subject)
Flora OCA drawing 1 