Publications by tag: пьер боннар

The curators of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao consider the art movements of the late 19th century at an unusual angle. An exhibition "Paris, Fin de Siècle" analyzes how political upheaval and cultural transformation of that time influenced the emergence of avant-garde painting. The leading exponents of Neo-impressionists, Symbolists and Nabis movements are represented in the show by more than 100…

The Nabis (Les Nabis), a group of French painters, are difficult to classify as fully belonging to a major artistic trend like Impressionism, Expressionism, or Art Nouveau. Though contemporaries of all these powerful movements, the Nabi artists directed their art along a narrow and winding course somewhere in between.

The little theatre of the passions of these two people is something beyond the limits of an ordinary biopic — it is rather a sort of film noir, or decadence, or psychological thriller. The drama of Pierre and Marthe’s love and life presents a soul-stirring storyline illustrated with hundreds of the artist’s pictures. To label their style, art critics even had to invent a special term, intimism.