Resumen de Still-Life With OrangeÉmile Bernard
When does the convergence of color, shape, line, and texture become more than the simple means to record a scene? How do they combine to produce a feeling, or an emotion? At what point does art cross the threshold from picture to idea? These were questions facing the painter Émile Bernard (1868-1941) and many of his contemporaries at the end of the 19th century. At least according to one critic, Adolphe Retté, writing in the magazine L’Ermitage, Bernard had provided some answers: “Paint for us landscapes which are symbols, portraits which are thoughts—in other words pictures where lines and tones represent an idea; you [Bernard] have what it takes to do that.”
