In Monet's Garden

In Monet's Garden is a small watercolor (7x9") I painted standing there in Monet's Garden at Giverny last Spring. The wisterias in bloom were exquisite. There was so much to chose from, so many flowers, that it was very hard to make a decision about what to put on the page. This is a quick watercolor on my journal. "In Monet's Garden" es una pequena acuarela de 17x23 cm. que pinte la primavera pasada alli en los jardines de Monet in Giverny. Las wisterias estaban exquisitamente florecidas. Habia tanto para elegir, tantas flores, que era muy dificil decidir que poner en el papel. Esta es una acuarela rapida de mi cuaderno de pinturas diarias.

Pierre Bonard has said: "Il ne s'agit pas de peindre la vie, il s'agit de rendre vivante la peinture". "It's not a matter of painting life, but of giving life to the painting". He used to nail the canvas to the wall to paint, he didn't need an easel. He didn't like "great installations" to paint. He loved his houses and used to represent them with geometrical designs, and with special care like Vermeer. Bonnard considered the work of art as time stopped for a moment. He hated to paint outdoors, when all his contemporaries were painting "plein air", he continued painting indoors. Of all the different stages of his oeuvre, it is the COLOR that makes his paintings. Pierre Bonnard ha dicho: "No se trata de pintar la vida, sino de darle vida a la pintura". El solia clavar la tela a la pared para pintar, no necesitaba un caballete. No le gustaban las "grandes instalaciones". Solia representar sus casas con diseno geometricos y con mucho cuidado, como Vermeer. Bonnard consideraba la obra de arte como detenida en el tiempo. El odiaba pintar al aire libre, cuando todo el mundo estaba pintando "plein air", el seguia pintando adentro. De todas las etapas de su obra, siempre es el COLOR el que gana la pintura.