Olle Bonnier - Artist Info

About Olle Bonnier

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    Swedish artist Olle Bonnier was born in 1925. "What then shaped me was of a double nature. It was partly the playfulness and partly the desire for a clearer composition. The playfulness, how should I describe it? It might be easiest to return to a childhood memory: A teamyard wall in violet dark with a gap where the sun's light dances through. Yellow shapes that swirl in front of the wall to suddenly pull back through the gap and again just be the sun behind, outside. A play with the light that has always gripped me with its magic." Olle Bonniér tells in the introduction to the section on the 1950 theme in Marika Bonniér Hansen's book "A small biography of Olle Bonniér". Olle Bonniér is undoubtedly one of Sweden's foremost represe...

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