Lucy Whelan on Pierre Bonnard | New York Studio School

Spring 2022 Evening Lecture Series: Lucy Whelan "Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision: Indeterminacy and Process," recorded on February 16, 2022.
Lucy Whelan is an art historian and Research Fellow at Downing College, University of Cambridge. Her research takes critical approaches to modern art in Europe, with a particular focus on France. Her first book, Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, is forthcoming with Yale University Press in spring 2022, and presents a revised understanding of Pierre Bonnard’s practice as a painter, draughtsman, and photographer. This project is the result of almost a decade of research and writing, including her PhD at the University of Oxford and a postdoctoral fellowship held at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
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[@bearbait7405]

Thank you. Lovely, genuine and erudite. I might add kind. Bonnard’s humility appears throughout his oeuvre.

[@johnvliet523]

WOW: Lucy/Bonnard, One beautiful soul reflecting on another. I am a painter and lifelong lover of Bonnard’s work coloristically as well as its (seemingly concomitant) illustrative intimacy. After years of learning from and admiring Bonnard I get to see more deeply into the experiences his paintings can bring us to.
Lucy, your thoughts and words and enthusiasm, the very vision of you, was so fulfilling in itself. Knowing there’s such an intelligence in the world is inspiring.
:)

[@seangreene7434]

Fantastic talk! Looking forward to reading your book and getting more involved in his thoughts on vision and painting