Pierre Bonnard, Garden with a Small Bridge (Jardin au Petit Pont) (detail), 1937. Oil on canvas. SBMA, Bequest of Wright S. Ludington. Courtesy photo.
SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA)’s Art Matters Lecture explores Pierre Bonnard’s Worlds at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.
Over the course of his fifty-year career, Pierre Bonnard painted the spaces of his personal experience again and again. In complex compositions employing luminous color and sensitive brushwork, Bonnard explored the realms of his visual and sensory experience–from landscape to garden to terrace to house, looking along a path, through an open window, down at a tabletop or a bathtub, or into a mirror. George Shackelford will explore these worlds across time and place, through images drawn from the exhibition he organized for the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and The Phillips Collection, Washington. D.C.
Location: SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara
Free Students and Museum Circle Members/$10 SBMA Members/$15 Non-Members
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