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Inspiration File ~ Art et Décoration

Art et Décoration April 2011 as seen on linenandlavender.blogspot.com

Art Et Décoration Magazine

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Artist Feature: Léon Bonvin b.1834 Paris, d.1866 Meudon, France

Léon Bonvin French, 1864 Still Life with Wine, Water, Fruit, Nuts as seen on linen & lavender (l&l)

Still Life with Wine, Water, Fruit and Nuts
Léon Bonvin French, 1864

Léon Bonvin French, Bare Tree and a Plowman via Getty Museum as seen on linen & lavender (l&l)

Bare Tree and a Plowman
Léon Bonvin French, 1864

Léon Bonvin French, 1864, Farm Building as seen on l&l (linen & lavender)

Léon Bonvin, Farm Building c.1864

Léon Bonvin French, 1865, Still Life on Kitchen Table with Celery, Parsley, Bowl and Cruets

As you know if you've been following l&l for awhile, I have a penchant for still life paintings, particularly the work of Luis Meléndez. I became enamored of his style upon seeing him in the Prado Museum several years ago and have sought him out ever since.

See previous posts: {Luis Meléndez, Master of the Spanish Still Life} &

{Night at the Museum: Luis Meléndez & Audry Hepburn}

The composition and tone of the still life paintings of Léon Bonvin speak to me in much the same way. I am equally enamored of Bonvin's moody landscapes, particularly those with the finely detailed tree branches as those I've selected to show you here.

"Highly detailed and original, Léon bonvin's watercolors of flowers, landscapes and moon lit scenes represent a distinctive contribution to the realist movement in mid-19th century France. Bonvin's luminous paintings reflect the humble surroundings accessible to the artist, a self-taught innkeeper on the outskirts of Paris." —excerpt, press release for the 2012 exhibition, Walters Art Museum

For more on Léon Bonvin's life and works,

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The Blue Lantern

"ARTS JOURNALISM FOR THE LOVE OF IT"

by Jane Librizzi

Léon Bonvin Still Life- Glass On A Table before 1866 Louvre Museum-Paris via The Blue Lantern as seen on linen & lavender (l&l)

Jane's posts on the artist:

Léon Bonvin
Transcendental Transparency

The Yearning Landscapes of Léon Bonvin

Is this what we might call...

...the skull-inary arts? (!)

Artist's Statement:

{Currently, I use ceramics as my material in my method of expression, incorporating various decorative styles, patterns, and symbolic forms as my principal axis in creating my works. The decorative styles and forms I allude to and incorporate in my works each contain a story based on historical backgrounds and ideas, myths, and allegories.　Their existence in the present age makes us feel many things,; adoration, some sort of romantic emotions, a sense of unfruitfulness and languor from their excessiveness and vulgarity.And on the other hand, they make us feel tranquility and awe that can almost be described as religious, as well as an image as an object of worship.By citing such images, I feel I am able to express an - atmosphere- that is a part of the complex world in this age.In fact, the several decorative styles and forms I cite simultaneously hold divine and vulgar meaning in the present age, having an irrational quality that contradict each other, which I feel express an important aspect in the contemporary age in which we live.Also, the technique of ceramics has a tradition that has been a part of the history of decoration over a long time, and I feel the delicateness and fragile tension of the substantial material well express my concept. -Katsuyo Aoki}

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Amazing!

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Design Daily - chaise

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Design Daily - moody ambiance, bedroom

bedroom image via Maisons Côté Est Magazine as seen on linenandlavender.blogspot.com, post: http://www.linenandlavender.blogspot.com/2010/06/design-daily_28.html

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Design Daily - Pastoral Portrait

Pastoral Portrait, Côté Ouest Aout-Sept 2003, edited by lb for linenandlavender.blogspot.com

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Wade Hoefer

"Forest"

Wader Hoefer

This piece available via:
Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery

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Art Feature - Wade Hoefer

Alturus

Wade Hoefer, edited by lb for linenandlavender.blogspot.com

"For Hoefer each work is a mandala, a meditative device that allows the viewer to enter, through the work, into a deeper world. His choice of subject matter stems from our common understanding of the landscape: it becomes a visual vocabulary, a lexicon that can be endlessly repeated. For like the Sung painters of ancient China, the landscape becomes a vehicle for an inner voyage that can take the viewer into a spiritual world." -excerpt from Wade Hoefer website.

Eden East West

Allicio II

Westering Virgil

Wade Hoefer

I have long admired Wade Hoefer's work. -I am drawn in by the coloration of his paintings —particularly those with dark moody tones and the play of light on water such as I've selected here. Be sure to click on the link above to see other beautiful pieces or to contact a gallery in your area.