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Description: | Signed: yes Description: During the late 1840s Bonvin developed a way of painting still lifes that owed much to his study of the French artist Chardin (1699-1779). During the mid -19th century many artists were influenced by Chardin's work and this, together with Bonvin's support, was largely responsible for establishing still life as an important genre in the hierarchy of subjects in the major - usually annual - exhibition, known as the Paris Salon. From his paintings of the period, like The Crow, we can see that Bonvin was not interested in painting on a grand scale and that simplicity, rather than artifice, would be the keynote of his work. Here he focuses our attention upon a few simple shapes and forms, placed against a simple background. | Subjects: | still life; animal (crow) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bonvin, François (French painter and printmaker, 1817-1887) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8293... | Go to resource |
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