Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker. He was a member of a group of artist called the Nabis, which is Hebrew for prophet. Paul Serusier convened the Nabis, which consisted of several artists from the Academie Julian in Paris. They were greatly influenced by the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gaugin. Like many Impressionists and Post-Impressionists artist, they were galvanized by thick outlines and bold patterns that typified Japanese art. In spite of the fact that they were all diverse, they agreed that as artists, they were creators of intuitive art, which is profoundly rooted in the soul of the artist. 1 Bonnard was called an “intimist” because he was fascinated and delighted by simple day-to-day scenes around him. Many of the scenes Bonnard painted were from memory, where seizing the spirit of the moment was more significant than the exact individual or location.
Color, light and brushstroke took on an individualistic actuality towards the end of his life thus, Bonnard’s most recent paintings were deemed nearly abstract. However, his notion of painting what he felt from his memory remained unchanged. Bonnard painted The Green Blouse in 1919. The Green Blouse reveals a self-indulgent intensity of color, shining light and rapid brushstrokes that forms a coalesced, abstract surface. It is an oil on canvas painting that portrayed his effortless sense of style of painting daily scenes around him. It is a recording event of his wife and longtime companion,
