"La Revue Blanche"

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The paper describes the poster "La Revue Blanche" and its three different figures. The paper explains how Bonnard's "La Revue Blanche" creates the idea that this journal is the best in the city of Paris. The paper also highlights how Bonnard's "La Revue Blanche" shows the divisions between the French classes with one side being well-off and intelligent (the woman) and the other living in poverty and ignorance (the "urchin").

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"La Revue Blanche (1894) by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), a French artist primarily associated with the avant-garde movement and artists that were part of the Post-Impressionist Parisian school of painting, was designed as a promotional poster for the monthly Paris-based journal named in the title which in October of 1891 was published "under the direction of the brothers Thadee, Alexandre and Alfred Natansona" and was seen by middle and upper-class Parisians as "one of many French journals devoted to the arts and letters that proliferated" in the late 19th century in France. 1 Exactly what Bonnard is trying to say with this poster has much to do with advertisement. For example, this poster might possibly mean that the readers of "La Revue Blanche" (The White Review) should be cautious of other periodicals trying to imitate it, or that other journals like it are not as good and will never achieve as much success. La Revue Blanche also represents the bustling city of Paris in 1893, full of intelligent, talented and upper-class individuals with new ideas and a taste for modernism."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Pierre Bonnard: Observing Nature." National Gallery of Australia. Internet. 2003. Retrieved March 27, 2008 from http://nationalgallery.gov.au/Bonnard/Detail.cfm?IRN=157446&MnuID=1.

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