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Pierre Renoir French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841?CDecember 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".
Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.
His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugene Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th century master François Boucher.
A fine example of Renoir's early work, and evidence of the influence of Courbet's realism, is Diana, 1867. Ostensibly a mythological subject, the painting is a naturalistic studio work, the figure carefully observed, solidly modeled, and superimposed upon a contrived landscape. If the work is still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tr??hot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings.
In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet, working side-by-side, depicted the same scenes (La Grenouill??re, 1869).
One of the best known Impressionist works is Renoir's 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette). The painting depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people, at a popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre, close to where he lived.
On the Terrace, oil on canvas, 1881, Art Institute of ChicagoThe works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid 1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women, such as The Bathers, which was created during 1884-87. It was a trip to Italy in 1881, when he saw works by Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style, in an attempt to return to classicism. This is sometimes called his "Ingres period", as he concentrated on his drawing and emphasized the outlines of figures.
After 1890, however, he changed direction again, returning to the use of thinly brushed color which dissolved outlines as in his earlier work. From this period onward he concentrated especially on monumental nudes and domestic scenes, fine examples of which are Girls at the Piano, 1892, and Grandes Baigneuses, 1918-19. The latter painting is the most typical and successful of Renoir's late, abundantly fleshed nudes.
A prolific artist, he made several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently-reproduced works in the history of art.. |
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Pierre Renoir Woman with a Straw Hat mk64
1880
Oil on canvas
50.2x61cm
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Pierre Renoir Oarsmen at Chatou mk64
1879
Oil on canvas
81.3x100.3cm
Washington,D.C.,National Gallery of Art
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Pierre Renoir Girl with a Fan mk64
c.1881
Oil on canvas
65x50cm
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Pierre Renoir Mosque at Algiers mk64
1882
Oil on canvas
48.9x59cm
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Pierre Renoir Algerian Landscape:Wild Woman Ravine mk64
1881
Oil on canvas
65x81cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Pierre Renoir Algerian Girl mk64
1881
Oil on canvas
50.8x40.6cm
Boston,Massachusetts,
Museum of Fine Arts
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Pierre Renoir Pierre-Henri Renoir or the Artist's brother mk64
1870
Oil on canvas
81x64cm
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Pierre Renoir Young Girl with a Falcon mk64
1880
Oil on canvas
126.5x78.2cm
Williamstown,Massachusetts,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
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Pierre Renoir Camille Monet mk4
c.1873
Oil on canvas61x50cm
Paris,Musee Marmottan
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Pierre Renoir Claude Monet Painting mk64
1875
Oil on canvas
85x60.5cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Pierre Renoir Charles Le Caur mk64
1874
Oil on canvas
42x30cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Pierre Renoir Vicor Chocquet mk64
c.1875
Oil on canvas
46x37cm
Cambridge,Massachusetts
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Pierre Renoir Madame Victor Chocquet mk64
1875
Oil on canvas
75x60cm
Stuttgart,Staatsgalerie Stuttgrt
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Pierre Renoir AlfredSisley mk64
1876
Oil on canvas
66.4x54.8cm
Chicago,illinois,The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Pierre Renoir Self-Portrait at the Age of Thirty-five mk64
1876
Oil on canvas
73x57cm
Cambridge,Masachusetts,Fogg Art Museum
Harvard University Art Museums
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Pierre Renoir First Portrait of Madame Georges Charpentier mk64
1876-1877
Oil on canvas
46x38cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Pierre Renoir Eugene Murer mk64
1877
Oil on canvas
46x38cm
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Pierre Renoir Marie Meunier mk64
1877
Oil on canvas
67.66x57.1cm
Washington,D.C.National Gallery of Art
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Pierre Renoir Lady in a Black Dress mk64
c.1876
Oil on canvas
63x53cm
St.Petersburg,Russia,The State Hermitage Museum
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Pierre Renoir Madame Alphonse Daudet mk64
1876
Oil on canvas
47x36cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Pierre Renoir
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French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841?CDecember 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".
Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.
His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugene Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th century master François Boucher.
A fine example of Renoir's early work, and evidence of the influence of Courbet's realism, is Diana, 1867. Ostensibly a mythological subject, the painting is a naturalistic studio work, the figure carefully observed, solidly modeled, and superimposed upon a contrived landscape. If the work is still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tr??hot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings.
In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet, working side-by-side, depicted the same scenes (La Grenouill??re, 1869).
One of the best known Impressionist works is Renoir's 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette). The painting depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people, at a popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre, close to where he lived.
On the Terrace, oil on canvas, 1881, Art Institute of ChicagoThe works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid 1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women, such as The Bathers, which was created during 1884-87. It was a trip to Italy in 1881, when he saw works by Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style, in an attempt to return to classicism. This is sometimes called his "Ingres period", as he concentrated on his drawing and emphasized the outlines of figures.
After 1890, however, he changed direction again, returning to the use of thinly brushed color which dissolved outlines as in his earlier work. From this period onward he concentrated especially on monumental nudes and domestic scenes, fine examples of which are Girls at the Piano, 1892, and Grandes Baigneuses, 1918-19. The latter painting is the most typical and successful of Renoir's late, abundantly fleshed nudes.
A prolific artist, he made several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently-reproduced works in the history of art..
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