William BukowskiDetail: Full Sun, Full Garden
I was reading about Bonnard and on a postcard he sent his friend Henri Matisse, he wrote, "Long Live Painting". He wrote it because when war ripped through Europe and newer styles and art forms became the rage, Bonnard was looked at as old fashioned and his image oriented paintings a quaint thing of the past. He and Matisse corresponded and encouraged each other and bought each others artwork.
In 1930 the poet and surrealist Louis Aragon wrote," It can be stated that in the near future painting will be an anodyne amusement for young girls and old provincials."
I glad he was wrong.
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