The Green Blouse By Pierre Bonnard And Jean-Blome

Pierre Bonnard and Jean-Léon Géròme are both very talented artist both born in France. They both painting beautiful paintings throughout their career. Pierre Bonnard, painted The Green Blouse in 1919 which is 40 1/8 x 26 7/8 in. (101.9 x 68.3 cm) and Jean-Léon Géròme painted Bashi-Bazouk in 1868- 69 which is 31 3/4 x 26 in. (80.6 x 66 cm). Both artists painting is based on an event that occurred in their past. Bonnard’s painting captures a scene in which he observed. His longtime companion and wife, Marthe Boursin is seated at the table with dishes as well a bowl full with fruits which is iconography, symbolizing sensual. There is also an attendant at the left assisting her. In Bonnard’s paintings he makes his wife appear younger than she in all his paintings. In The Green Blouse she is in her fifties at the time but appears ageless. In Gerome’s painting it was made after he returned to Paris from a twelve-week journey to the Near East in early 1868. He hired a model and dressed him in his studio with textiles he had acquired during the expedition. Gerome’s Turkish title for this painting means “headless” which evokes the unpaid irregular soldiers who fought for plunder under Ottoman leadership. Bonnard and Géròme both have similarities and differences in their paintings when it comes to Installation, line, space, color, texture, content,
Bonnard uses overlapping to give the viewer an illusion that one object is in front of the other in space. For example, Marthe is in front of the window and in front of her is the bowl with fruits. Because Bonnard overlapped in his painting it gives us the illusion that it is three dimensional. On the other hand, In Gerome’s painting he uses negative space. There is an empty black space behind the soldier that makes it three dimensional. Because the background is black, creating a negative space, it makes the light colors in the front stand