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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 View of Bordighera:the Palms Postcard c 1900
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Pierre Renoir Young Woman Seated 1890
Oil on canvas 91 x 72 cm
Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir jean Drawing 1901
OIl on canvas 45.1 x 54.5 cm
Richmond Virginia Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Coco Playing 1905
Oil on canvas 65 x 82 cm
Paris Musee de l'Orangerie (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Young Woman Seated(The Thought) c 1876-1877
Oil on canvas 66 x 55.5 cm (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Summer(The Gypsy Girl) 1868
Oil on canvas 85 x 59 cm
Berlin Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz Nationalgalerie (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir William Sisley(1799-1871) 1864
Oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm
Paris Musee d'Orsay (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir A Decorator of China 1854-1870
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Pierre Renoir Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne 1868
Oil on canvas 72 x 90 cm
Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Landscape on the Coast near Menton 1883
Oil on canvas 65.8 x 81.3 cm
Boston Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts bequest of John T Spaulding (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Woman in Black c 1876 oil on canvas 25 1/8 x 21 1/8 in(63 x 53 cm) St Petersburg Hermitage (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Bust of a Woman with Yellow Corsage c 1883
Oil on canvas 42 x 32 cm
Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Chaude Monet Reading 1872
Oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm
Paris Musee d'Orsay (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir The Mosque(Arab Holiday) 1881
2' 5'' x 3'(73.5 x 92 cm)Gift of the Biddle Foundation
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Pierre Renoir Alphonsine Fournaise op het eiland Chatou 1879
olieverf op linnen 71 x 92 cm Louvre Parijs (foto Josse) (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Madame Renoir met hond 1880
Olieverf op linnen 32 x 41 cm Privebezit Parijs (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot c 1869
Oil on baperboard mounted on canvas 64.9 x 54.2 cm
Boton Masschusetts Museum of Fine Arts bequest of John T Spaulding (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir The Bridge at Argenteuil in Autunn 1882
Oil on canvas 54.3 x 65.8 cm
Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir The Pone des Arts and the Institut de Frane Paris c 1867-1868
Oil on canvaas 62 x 103 cm
Pasadena California Norton Simon Founda-Tion (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Stephane Mallarme 1842-1898 French Poet
1892 Oil on canvas Versailles Musee National du Chateau et de Trianon (mk64)
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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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