Renoir

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of all the great European painters, Pierre Auguste Renoir is probably among the most widely known and the best loved. His obvious delight in the beauty and pleasures of everyday life, his ability to capture the bloom of the young female nude, and the continual freshness of his palette give his work a timeless appeal.
A contemporary of French artists such as Manet, Monet, Degas, Sisley and Pissarro, the young Renoir joined with them in the experimental approach to painting which the critics named Impressionism; like them he spent many hours in the open air seeking to capture the fleeting effects of light and motion upon his canvases. Painting was no longer simply a matter of story-telling or of portraying the Wealthy, but became a record of Parisian life and its suburban landscape. For Renoir, however, this was no intellectual process. Throughout his artistic career he remained a firm believer in the power of intuition and craftsmanship above all else.
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of all the great European painters, Pierre Auguste Renoir is probably among the most widely known and the best loved. His obvious delight in the beauty and pleasures of everyday life, his ability to capture the bloom of the young female nude, and the continual freshness of his palette give his work a timeless appeal.
A contemporary of French artists such as Manet, Monet, Degas, Sisley and Pissarro, the young Renoir joined with them in the experimental approach to painting which the critics named Impressionism; like them he spent many hours in the open air seeking to capture the fleeting effects of light and motion upon his canvases. Painting was no longer simply a matter of story-telling or of portraying the Wealthy, but became a record of Parisian life and its suburban landscape. For Renoir, however, this was no intellectual process. Throughout his artistic career he remained a firm believer in the power of intuition and craftsmanship above all else.
After almost a decade of struggle Renoir's work began to be appreciated in the 18 80s, and with recognition, and the financial security it brought, came a change in style. Abandoning the feathery brush-strokes and vague contours of his Impressionist works, Renoir entered his 'dry' period, and at the same time began to concentrate almost exclusively on the subject matter that was to inspire almost all his painting for the rest of his life: women and children.
He married in 18 90, and his wife, three sons and a series of young girls who came to the household as nursemaids provided him with a long succession of models. Around the turn of the century his reputation spread outside France, and the museums of England, Germany and the USA began to acquire his work. Sadly, the last twenty years of his life were blighted by rheumatoid arthritis, which made painting an agonizing process, though none of his physical deterioration is visible in his work. To the end, his touch remained vital, his ability to convey the glories of the human body as powerful as ever. Vissza