Bonnard: Bringing Painting to Life

Born 1867, Pierre Bonnard was a French Post-Impressionist, avant-garde painter, illustrator, and printmaker. His artwork became especially known for the stylized decorative qualities, intimate scenes, and his bold use of color, meriting him the title Painter of Happiness. Also he was a founding member of Les Nabis.
Director: Elsa Lheritier
Series : Behind the Artist - La Grande Expo
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[@gordonstevens6050]

I thought I was going mad, until I realised it was the 'music' that was sending me there. Then I found the mute button. Why do these people who make videos think we need the full Disney treatment. It's boring

[@lisengel2498]

I love the painting style of Pierre Bonnard and liked the art historical narrative focussing on Bonnard becoming a Painter and finding his Purpose of art. A cantillation of the beauty and mystery og light and Life . 🙏🎶💚🧡

[@jaimeochoa7256]

Marvelous! Thank you for sharing his life and talent ❤

[@brendadrew834]

The quintessential painter , one of my favorites says this former retired NYC fashion illustrator and painter! Along with Henri Matisse and other famous painters! Light, love and color! ♥🎨🖌🖼💙

[@gowanhewlett745]

SUPERB in every way SUPERB. Thankyou.

[@404tita]

Thank you for this! Formidable

[@bsnguy12k]

He died at age 79. And Henri Rousseau was never considered a Fauve.

[@luxor9838]

Appreciated you .Informative.

[@anayvishwas9114]

This is amazing....

[@DV-dt9sq]

Fabulous! 🥰

[@MexTexican]

Too bad about the awful soundtrack. Bonnard is so great! Love that he was influenced by the Japanese masters.

[@MT-2020]

True.

[@TimGreig]

Soundtrack was horrible.

[@ingridl9715]

It's actually unbearable. Will read about him instead 😆

[@aggonzalez8096]

Hahah it wasn’t unbearable but when the weird rock started playing during the Japanese paintings…what???

[@sannefridolin]

I know! I don’t understand why so many videos have this atrocious background music!

[@edwardslater8564]

l like his colours very much .got a couple of his art books .

[@barbarazielinska8968]

Piekne Dzieła Wylądowały W Moim Sercu.

[@MissPerriwinkle]

he is so delish...

[@johanngm6846]

Sequence is much too fast. Soundtrack is shit. Text is not in tune with the works..

[@kristine6996]

💕 True Love 💕

[@donnadees7031]

THis is reawakening, I have bonnard mixed up w/ -----???? thank you for good video.

[@brucknerian9664]

Very interesting portraits of the artist but not enough actual showing of his work--they're sacrificed to make room for all the art experts/critics, historians, and the French landscapes. Very sad. I take offense at this omission being an artist myself.

[@marypartridge5154]

I think the sound track is marvellous and not too much at all. Some people complain for no particular reason. Beautiful music so thanx.

[@StevenHeapRecipes]

But why paint Will from the Inbetweeners?

[@Poemsapennyeach]

Sacred quality of light?? !! Oh please.

[@Peter-yk2hh]

Saw hom retrospektivebin 90s losiana...

[@Doyouboo.]

🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏🙏

[@renatebrosch9776]

why do they show so few paintings by bonnard?

[@argiberico]

To provoke your curiosity to go see them in the museum.

[@xyzllii]

They omit an important FACT in his life. He began an affair with a model...painted her and a not pleased Martha together. Left Martha to be with the model. Martha got ill. He returned to Martha. Model committed suicide. Life was never the same for Pierre and Martha after that !

[@ainomirailario5491]

this explains a lot!

[@CVS19851]

How in this Earth they forgot such fact? 😂

[@kristine6996]

Suicide has its reason. 🌳

[@youtubeless-ju4vj]

Uui.. arrazou

[@MT-2020]

"madly in love"... x plus 3 times... he got his forever lover-in-house model. His lovers (at least two we know) like Renee was engaged with him. etc. ... 26 years he got Martha, who made up her last name, wondering - walking the street... uhm... yeah, a florists...

[@JudyHanksDesign]

He said , “Never too much yellow,”

[@JudyHanksDesign]

There was a young woman he loved and she killed herself because he would not leave Marte. It is an important arc in his life.

[@andrewnorris2]

Unbearable to watch! The soundtrack is so ridiculous and intrusive.

[@dougjohnson3299]

Yes

[@TimGreig]

Who in earth edit the soundtrack?! It was awful. Please tell me that voice was ai. If not, that female narrator was totally detached( like the music)

[@andreaandrea6716]

The music is abysmal.

[@williamroberts1819]

Can we get some Paul Bernard please?

[@pamberry6354]

What an interesting program on Bonnard....the music in the background?? Very distracting and not congruous with the work to me!

[@John-mz8rj]

2000s think he would be disappointed.

[@simeonbanner6204]

Awful editing, and shrill pop music at odds with the images. BBC at least tends to get it right.

[@rtk3543]

A great prestation for twelve year olds.

[@bewareofpigeons]

Can't watch because of the dreadful soundtrack - what possessed you?

[@elizabethhurtado2829]

🥜🥜🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

[@williamgorden6390]

Another potentially good documentary ruined by the soundtrack! Too, bad -- really.

[@belizetobali]

Stick with it. . . the first four minutes have terrible music and narration. But once it gets to interviewing people and translations are read very well by a appropriate voices. But that introduction is just horrible and inappropriate.

[@andreaandrea6716]

This is NOT the 'Best Documentary'. Bonnard DESERVES A BETTER DOCUMENTARY!! Ugh!

[@palnagok1720]

How did he pay for his lifestyle ?

[@ZetaReticulian]

The music is just FUCKING ANOYING

[@dannymalboeuf1692]

What fool chose the music for this? It's not an acid rave.

[@SECTOMANIA]

The female AI voice is disconcerting but some great images here .

[@trexoman54]

Stopped at 8:29. Music playing during the narration. Every cut having its own sound track. No discipline whatsoever by the director.

[@ndugujamal5539]

Everything is art, most artists are over rated. I think art should be measured by the effort the artist puts.

[@P-A-X-]

Also beauty against ugliness works well as a criterion of judgment. Mostly of the twenty century art and the contemporary are ugly rubbish.

[@michael4250]

The reward is the beauty...not the sweat in its production.

[@gisawslonim9716]

That is the most idiotic remark ever made about art...that art should be measured by the effort the artist puts into it. All budding artists put great effort into their art but not all budding artists get to be great artists. You need much more than "great effort" to become a great artist!

[@barbaraangele8615]

Music tells a story Greater than any photos or dialog. Too bad the music chooses for this documentary RUINED it completely.

[@andreaandrea6716]

There HAS TO BE a better documentary about Bonnard.

[@argiberico]

it's the one you'll come up with

[@andreaandrea6716]

@@argiberico No. I am NOT a documentary film maker! Do you know the name of any documentary film makers? Here's one: Ken Burns. BRILLIANT documentary film maker. When you've seen a good doc. film, you forget it's a documentary. It's just a fascinating piece of work into which you fall and forget your life for the hour. This doc on Bonnard is poorly made. It makes me angry that Bonnard has to suffer this. HE DESERVES BETTER.

[@matthewstokes1608]

@@andreaandrea6716 zzzzz

[@bzxshor67mpts]

what a pity he didn,t stick to his childhood path and got lost with his later style.His earliear paintings showed promise

[@matthewstokes1608]

whatever you say

[@Charlotte-vp2fu]

This sounds like some food show. Or "how to decorate your home..." Horrible. Who made this? Zero "feeling" for France and the 1800:s. Absolutely zero. (Bonnard is a great artist.)

[@judyjudy51]

Ludicrous soundtrack and some dodgy commentary ; fabulous painter !

[@Waferdicing]

🗿

[@michael4250]

Butchers. Almost entirely talking heads, not art. And almost entirely cut-up parts of paintings, never shows entire painting because COMPOSITION apparently means nothing to painting.

[@nicholasnunn806]

Horrendous

[@luisaaverina1760]

Immensely disturbing soundtrack makes almost impossible watching a good and interesting documentary. What a pity.

[@speedspeederspeedest]

Worst soundtrack to a documentary i ever heard. AI generated?

[@trevordaviesable]

It would be excellent except for the stupid music and too much advertising . So I won't watch it.

[@michael4250]

Not one painting...just talking heads celebrating themselves. In focus and and full-screen faces, but don't look for the art here, it is not their priority.

[@imaxinebrown694]

Really? he’s no master!

[@michael4250]

An insult to Bonnard.

[@KS-ov3vk]

Had he been alive, Manet would certainly have enjoyed attending the Japanese art exhibition of 1890 (as he must have in 1867). However he died in 1883. 😑 Details. This was a disappointing "documentary." Bonnard deserves better.

[@michael4250]

garbage

[@alinejoyce77]

Awful soundtrack - and I’m sick of hearing about the genius boys club in art history - mimicking each other.

[@devinmichaelroberts9954]

The production on all of these "la grande expo" documentaries is AWFUL hahaha. Laughably cheesy and bad.

[@israeldiegoriveragenius2th164]

Bonnard was a clumsy painter, his colours look like vomit.

[@moises.elmusa]

magnifeee thanks