Painting For Pleasure

Bonnard – Interior With Flowers (1919) – private collection

“Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.” Pierre Bonnard

Bonnard was a small, perhaps pensive and quiet man, but you surely wouldn’t guess that from looking at his paintings. They virtually explode with color and energy. In fact, sometimes they are so energetically painted they are even hard to look at.

I think this painting certainly mirrors his words above – to me, it's sheer pleasure expressed in paint.

Comments

[D. Charriere]

Beautiful quote of Bonnard's. Hard to limit you palette when your use to a full array of colour.....