Responses, by Tweet, to and during a visit to Pierre Bonnard : The Colour of Memory
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3 May
Responses, by Tweet, to and during a visit to the [C C Land] exhibition Pierre Bonnard : The Colour of Memory on Friday 3 May 2019
By Room 4 at @Tate Modern, it is clear enough that #Bonnard :— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 3, 2019
* Couldn't depict a human face to save his life
* Can perfectly render a wash-stand
* Liked photographic effects such as mirror-shots or shaded extremes
* In Room 7, gives us one of these moody looks, in Paysage du Midi (1920-1921) as if the light fairy has dulled almost everything— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 3, 2019
* Loves a seducing exterior, seen through a window - breaking rules of photography
* Resolved around nudes, water, tables (especially laden with food) and table-cloths, distant views, mirrors - maybe as with Magritte's stock elements ?— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 3, 2019
* In Femme nue se baissant (1923) and famous Baignoire (Le Bain) (1925) occludes the face
This is probably the best of his views of the outside from indoors pic.twitter.com/A0RDlux8du— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 3, 2019
End-notes :
* But, never all that convincing usually with human faces, the best of these nudes are seen from the back...
Arguably, #Bonnard's 'best' nude - if a nude should be lively, sensuous and not merely observed - is not even in the show, however... pic.twitter.com/1rIlg6lgxY— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 3, 2019
Even so, it is puzzling that - as allegedly still true of 'glamour models' - the woman is naked, but obliged to wear black court shoes ? (In this case, they may actually be slippers, but in other nudes in the show, they are definitely shoes.)
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