‘Snapshot: Painters and Photography,’ at Phillips Collection
Interesting art review of a great looking show that speaks directly to earlier content covered in class regarding post impressionist painters and their relationship to photography. The work in the show is more specifically related to the Nabis movement (Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton,Henri Rivière etc) An interesting quote: "But, as the smartphone has taught us, amateur photographers will happily trade perfection for convenience. And the Kodak’s drawbacks might actually have endeared it to the Nabis; the blurry, awkward images it produced weren’t much of a threat to painting." It's interesting to think of how a painting aesthetic can be so significantly influenced by something as incidental as a response to a threat by another emerging genre. Also interesting to note the huge difference in how Vallotton and Vuillard made use of their photographs.
Looks like this show will travel to Indianapolis this summer....
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