Notes on The Accidental Masterpiece

Chapter 1 The Art of Making A World

• Picasso wasn’t a big fan of Bonnards work, “He is not really a modern Painter.”
• Bonnard was thought to be too soft. His paintings are tender and require patience.
• His paintings made most of a relationship that to outsiders seemed tragic.
• Painted wife, Maria Bourism (Marthe) nearly 400 times.
• Compared Mitchell and Bonnards work as similar.
• Bonnard explored his world everyday, and as he did so, it became more and more fantastical.
• Painted big bowls of fruit sitting on a table with a window open.

Other Artists Mentioned in Reading:

• Paul Gauguin- was a leading Post-Impressionist Painter. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms
• Joan Mitchell-was a ‘Second Generation’ Abstract Expressionist Painter. She was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim.