Pierre Bonnard (2 October 1867 - 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, and was also a member of the Les Nabis, a group of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists in France in the 1890s. He is well know for using intense colours, in which he specifically targets areas built with small brush marks and close values. Most of his paintings would feature friends or family along with room interiors and gardens, making them both narrative and autobiographical. However it was his wife Marthe that was more or less the true subject of his paintings, in which she has been seen in a variety of situations, from sitting at a kitchen table, to being nude and also look out from a balcony as is featured in the painting that I am reviewing.
When it comes to landscapes and environments I can’t really help but like them, and this painting is no different. I especially like the way it shows how much depth there is, as you can see the window of a room for the foreground and then it just happens to expand outwards revealing a entire town and hills. This in my view creates it’s own ‘world’ within the painting, which somehow I can end up looking at this picture for hours and not get bored with it. Apparently Pierre intended to frame the landscape with the window and doorways, submitting the abundance of nature to human control, which when told this, you can actually see that meaning perfectly.
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