In "Some Aspects of Life in Paris, 5: Street Seen from Above," Bonnard shows a city street, viewed from a rooftop. Bonnard's series "Some Aspects or Parisian Life," does not show the monuments of Paris, but rather uses unique perspectives to capture daily life in the city. "But for some of these artists, it's their most free, most creative work."Īnd indeed, they are. They were not profitable at all," Leonard said. "They were made for fairly elite collectors. With an eye for the most avant-garde printmaking of the time, he commissioned members of the Nabi group - Pierre Bonnard, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis, artists who were committed to create art more as a decorative matter more than with a realist approach - to create 12 prints each, plus a cover (Roussel stopped at 7). PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE CLARK ART INSTITUTEĪ highlight of the show, which comes at the very end, are four portfolios commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, art dealer, at the very end of the 19th century. 1898, lithograph in yellow, beige, light green deep green on laid paper. Pierre Bonnard, "Some Aspects of Life in Paris, 5: Street Seen from Above," c. By reducing the size, these prints became collectible art prints. But yet, the critic said, they were art prints. Toulouse-Lautrec, who is better known today, also helped bring the art form further, as one art critic said his prints of the Moulin Rouge bent the rules - they were neither posters nor prints. Cheret, the so-called "King of the Posters" would help legitimize the lithograph poster as a fine art. The upside in this burst of experimentation was that it gave way to an experimentation in color lithography. It was economically infeasible - the number of prints was too low the cost too high. "It came with the same problems," Leonard said. Color intaglio was still the primary printing process being used. The return to color printmaking was not without its problems. 1894, bears notations along the edges, referring to the specific hues he wanted for the pigmentations. Pissaro's "Peasant Women Weeding the Grass," c. Also experimenting at this time were Eugène Delâtre and Camille Pissaro. While not the first to experiment with color, she was among the most focused. REVIEW: Go for the Japanese woodblock prints, stay for the art history lessonĪlthough Japan opened its borders to the Western world in the 1850s, and Japanese woodblock prints made their way into France in the 1860s and 70s, it wasn't until 1890 that Mary Cassatt, an American artist in France, visited the show of Japanese prints at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, that she began experimenting with colored prints, said Anne Leonard, Manton curator of prints, drawings and photographs, during a recent tour of the exhibit.Ĭassatt then proceeded to make 10 aquatints inspired by the ukiyo-e prints, of which her "Mother's Kiss" (1891), is on display. The show, which runs through March 6, 2022, examines how Japanese ukiyo-e prints helped French artists embrace, again, color in their prints, and the road to making it acceptable as a fine art form. It is here that the story of "Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and The Debate Over Colors," the Clark Art Institute's latest exhibition of prints, begins. Both French artists and collectors took notice. And, they were far and few between.Ĭolored prints would not be accepted in France for nearly a century, until an influx of brightly hued Japanese woodblock prints began to arrive in Paris in the latter half of the 1800s. Prints with color were either done with a printing process that limited colors to a single plate or were colored by hand after being printed. PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE CLARK ART INSTITUTEįollowing the French Revolution, colored prints, being associated with the aristocracy, were shunned. Jules Chéret (French, 1836–1932), "Vin Mariani," 1894–95, color lithograph on paper.
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