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Intimism

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Intimism

In art, the painting of intimate domestic scenes. Essentially a development of genre painting, Intimism was developed in the late 19th century by the French painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. Their decorative, brightly coloured style owed a great deal to the Nabis.



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Howard Hodgkin once called a painting After Vuillard; the title sums up much of what some admire about his work as well as what leaves others so indifferent: the echoes of Ecole de Paris intimism and an Epicurean redeployment of stylistic features abstracted not just from Vuillard but also from Bonnard and Matisse.
Some, like Wesendock Villa, 2002, and Strand mit Menschen (Beach with People), 2001, recall the intimism of artists such as Gabriele Munter and Gwen John but are entirely contemporary in their simultaneous intensification and abstraction of the original image.
Two keys to Greenwold's work are a lapidary intimism and a close familiarity with the grid.
 
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