Chapter 1, Pierre Bonnard, The Art of Making a World

1. the art of making a
world
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2. “…beauty is often where you don’t expect to find it;
that it is something we may discover and also invent,
then reinvent, for ourselves; that the most important
things in the world are never as simple as they seem
but that the world is also richer when it declines to
abide by comforting formulas. And that it is always
good to keep your eyes wide open, because you
never know what you will discover. The drive to live
life more alertly being an instinctive need, whether
you are an artist by trade or by desire, the art of
seeing well is a necessary skill, which fortunately can
be learned.”

3. Picasso,
Le Demoiselles
d'Avignon, 1907

4. Picasso,
Weeping Woman,
1937

5. Picasso in his
studio

6. “Don’t talk to me about Bonnard.That’s not
painting, what he does…Painting isn’t a
question of sensibility: it’s a question of
seizing the power, taking over from nature,
not expecting her to supply you with
information and good advice.”
Picasso on Bonnard

7. Pierre Bonnard in his studio, photographed by Cartier-Bresson

8. Pierre Bonnard, photographed by
Cartier-Bresson

9. Bonnard,
The BreakfastTable,
1930-1

10. Pierre & Marthe Bonnard,
1920

11. Pierre Bonnard, Nude in the Bath

12. Pierre Bonnard, Marthe in the Bathtub

13. Pierre Bonnard, Marthe in the Bath (detail)

14. Bonnard,
Marthe Entering the
Room, 1942

15. Pierre Bonnard, JardinVu De LaTerrasse

16. Bonnard,
Woman in a Green
Dress in a Garden

17. Bonnard,
Last Self-Portrait,
1944

18. Joan Mitchell,
1925 – 1992

19. Mitchell,
After April, Bernie,
1987

22. “We are all vaguely tormented with a desire to
know a world which appears to us a dungeon…I
should feel as if I could not depart in peace out
of this narrow sphere unless I endeavored to
explore my prison.The more I examine it, the
more beautiful and extensive it becomes in my
eyes.”
Astolphe de Custine

23. Kimsooja, Looking into
Sewing

25. Henry Darger
1892 – 1973

26. Henry Darger’s home

27. Henry Darger

28. Henry Darger

29.
“No work of art is more important than the Christian’s
own life, and every Christian is called upon to be an artist
in this sense. He may have no gift of writing, no gift of
composing or singing, but each man has the gift of
creativity in terms of the way he lives his life. In this sense,
the Christian’s life is to be an artwork.The Christian’s life
is to be a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and
despairing world.”
Theologian Francis A. Schaeffer

30. Caine’s Arcade, East LA

31. Caine’s Arcade, East LA