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Indepth Arts News: "Bonnard, Degas, Vuillard: Photographs" 2004-04-28 until 2004-06-20 Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva Lisbon, , PT Portugal
Consciously or unconsciously, the setting of the image expresses the particular sensitivity of the photographer. That of Bonnard reveals purity in sensuality which never ceases to move us. That of Degas, a more sophisticated gaze, pursues the permanence of a gesture or a presence. That of Vuillard conveys a feeling of intimacy and serenity.
Whether it be due to the elementary Kodak camera which produces films in a reduced format or to the glass plate apparatus used by Degas – sometimes supplied with a timer to produce self-portraits – the images often show, through the haloes, that the lighting has been reworked: all uncover that they used techniques to capture reality similar to those used in their painting and a feeling of passion in setting down on camera events and moments of sensibility.
These early photographs supply us with the ever topical, ever desirable presence of a poetic spirit, away from the turmoil of trends and generations. A mystery in silence.
What holds our attention in this first photographic confrontation between these three major artists is obviously not so much the similarities between them but rather the freedom of their action, the curiosity they reveal, the permanence in their personal approaches in expressive settings, in the musicality of light and in the exquisite pleasure of surprise.
Like an enchantment…
Jean-François Jaeger IMAGE
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