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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 In the Meadow mk64
c.1890
Oil on canvas
81.3x65.4cm
New York,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Pierre Renoir Girls Picking Flowers in a Meadow mk64
c.1890
Oil on canvas
65x81cm
Boston,Massachusetts
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Pierre Renoir The Spring mk64
c.1895
Oil on canvas
65.5x155.5cm
Merion,Pennsylvania,
The Barnes Foundation
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Pierre Renoir Head of a Woman mk64
c.1887
Oil on canvas
42x32cm
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Pierre Renoir Young Girls in a Garden in Montmartre mk64
1892-1895
Oil on canvas
37x50cm
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Pierre Renoir Bather with a Rock mk64
c.1880
Oil on canvas
92x73cm
Paris,Musee Marmottan
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Pierre Renoir Seated Bather mk64
1882
Oil on canvas
54x39cm
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Pierre Renoir Three Bathers by the Water mk64
1884-1885
Sanguine
chalk
108x162cm
Paris,Muss du Louvre
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Pierre Renoir Variation of The Bather mk64
1903
Oil on canvas
112x166cm
Nice,Musee Massena
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Pierre Renoir Young Girl Bathing mk64
1892
Oil on canvas
81.3x64.8cm
New York,The Metropoltan Museum of Art.
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Pierre Renoir Bather Seated on a Rock mk64
1892
Oil on canvas
80x64cm
Paris,
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Pierre Renoir Little Girl in a White Apron mk64
1884
Oil on canvas
35x27cm
Paris,
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Pierre Renoir Girl with a Hoop mk64
1884
Oil on canvas
125.7x76.6cm
Washington,D.C.
National Gallery of Art
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Pierre Renoir Bather Drying herself mk64
1895
Oil on canvas
91x72cm
Paris,Galerie Daniel Malingue
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Pierre Renoir Bather Arranging Her Hair mk64
1893
Oil on canvas
92.5x74cm
Washington,D.C.National Gallery of Art.
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Pierre Renoir Bather Standing mk64
1896
Oil on canvas
81x60cm
Fribourg
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Pierre Renoir Three Bathers with a Crab mk64
1897
Oil on canvas
54.6x65.7cm
Cleveland
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Pierre Renoir Bathers in the Forest mk64
c.1897
Oil on canvas
73.7x99.7cm
Merion,Pennsylvania
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Pierre Renoir Young Girl Undressing mk64
1899
Oil on canvas
35x26cm
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Pierre Renoir The judgment of Paris mk64
1914
Oil on canvas
73x92.5cm
Hiroshima,Hiroshima Museum of Art
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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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