Staande naakte vrouw wast zich in bad 1925

This is Pierre Bonnard’s, "Standing Nude Woman Washing in a Bath", we don't know exactly when it was made but it's a print, so, probably one of many. Have you ever noticed how Bonnard could take something ordinary, like someone taking a bath, and turn it into this whole world of feeling? Looking closely, you can see how he builds the image with these tiny marks. They remind me of the way I layer colors in my own work, trying to find the right balance. The texture here is all in the lines. Dense hatching makes a sort of fog around the figure. Check out the way he uses the marks to suggest the water, like it’s almost alive. It’s like he’s showing us that there's no real clear boundary between the woman and the room, and that it is all part of the same, vibrating, moving atmosphere. You can see the legacy of this sort of drawing in the later work of someone like Georg Baselitz. Art is, like, one big conversation across time, and Bonnard had so much to say.