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Renoir Paintings |
Dance at Bougival
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Grande Vaso di Fiori
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Grande Vaso di Fiori
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Gallery Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir a French painter was originally associated with the Impressionist movement. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. However unlike his friend and fellow impressionist he was more solid , He did not go deep into the substance of what he saw but seized upon its appearance, grasping its generalities.
A visit to Italy in 1881-82 inspired him to seek a greater sense of solidarity in his work. By the mid-1880s he felt he had 'travelled as far as Impressionism could take me', and broke off with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women. The change in his attitude began to reflect in his paintings . to begin with in The Umbrellas, which he started before going to Italy and finished after his return.
In the last few years of his life, Rheumatism had crippled him, but he continued to paint, even when on a wheel chair- such was his passion.
Renoir is perhaps the best-loved of all the Impressionists. Renoir was particularly entranced by people and often painted friends and lovers. He was one of the great worshippers of the female form
His subjects---pretty children, flowers, beautiful scenes, above all lovely women---have instant appeal, and they communicated the joy he took in them with great directness.
His love for beauty and pleasure is clear in his paintings. He says- `Why shouldn't art be pretty?' `There are enough unpleasant things in the world.'
Enjoy the beauty and charm that Renoir paitnings exude in our gallery.
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Monday, December, 1 st
2008
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