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PIERRE BONARD

I did research on a painting of Pierre Bonnard called Grande salle à manger sur le jardin (1934–35). His experiments with light ally him with the Impressionists, while his compositional daring is modernist. His intimate scale and the way he finds unexpected patterns in domestic interiors are reminiscent of Vuillard. His decorativeness recalls the Nabis, without the arcana of symbolism. Bonnard is a superb colorist.

I transformed his painting into 5 basic colours. With these colours I wanted to create the same impressionist feeling in a modern coat, I wanted to claim the title as colorist in a digital context. I transformed these 5 colours in combination with the painting to create an image which is based on more than 2.000.000 pixels with more then 500 colours.