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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born 1841 in Limoges, Franc and died 1919 in Cagnes, France.
Self-Portrait - 1875
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Romain Lascaux - 1864
Renoir is regarded as one of the central figures of the Impressionist movement.
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Like #MaryCassatt his early works were typically bright and colorful Impressionist studies of ordinary day to day life.
Girl Gathering Flowers - 1872
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However by the mid-1880s, he had broken with the movement & applied a more disciplined, formal technique/approach to his portraits & figure paintings, particularly of women.
Dancer - 1874
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Renoir demonstrated his talent at an early age. Recognizing his talent, his parents apprenticed him, at age 13 to a porcelain factory.
Spring Bouquet - 1866
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At the porcelain factory, he learned to decorate plates with bouquets of flowers.
Still life with Fuchsias -1879
πNote the Chinese influence in style. (Chinese art exhibit in France at the time.)
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Shortly after that, he was painting fans and then cloth panels representing religious themes for missionaries.
Madame Stora in Algerian Dress - 1870
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In 1862, he took evening courses in drawing & anatomy at the Γcole des Beaux-Arts as well as painting lessons at the studio of Charles Gleyre.
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Gleyre had been a student of the 19th-century Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres.
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Renoir chafed at the traditional academic style of art taught, but found he shared an aesthetic sensibility with
The Banks of the Seine - 1875
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His classmates Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, & FrΓ©dΓ©ric Bazille.
Girl with a Fan
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Snow at Louveciennes I by Alfred Sisley
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Poppy Field in Argenteuil by Claude Monet
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Their shared sensibilities quickly led to a strong friendship, and Renoirβs early works include FrΓ©dΓ©ric Bazille (1867),
Flowers by FrΓ©dΓ©ric Bazille
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Frederic Bazille at his Easel 1867 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The Painter Sisley and His Wife (1868)
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and Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil (1873) by Renoir.
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At the AcadΓ©mie Suisse, Paul CΓ©zanne and Camille Pissarro were preoccupied with the same aesthetic sensibilities...
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire - Paul CΓ©zanne
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As Renoir & his friends. The two groups met frequently.
Boating Couple aka Aline Charigot and Renoir by Renoir
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The two groups met frequently. FrΓ©dΓ©ric Bazille was the go between the two groups of friends.
Camille Pissarro - Sunset at St. Charles, Eragny 1891
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Renoir enjoyed the freedom of experimenting with new techniques while developing his style.
The Box - 1874
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In 1864, contrary to the norm of the time Gleyre introduced his four students to painting outdoors in the forest of Fontainebleau.
Young man in the forest of Fontainebleau
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In 1863 Γdouard Manet took a much bolder step: his painting Le DΓ©jeuner sur lβherbe (1863; Luncheon on the Grass) provoked quite a scandal because its subject and technique.
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Manetβs daring made him quite the hero, in the eyes of the young artists, and came to become the leader of a new movement.
Girl with a Watering Can -1876
(My motherβs favorite)
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Impressionism attracted notoriety with the first Impressionist exposition of 1874, held independently of the official Salon.
Mlle Irene Cahen d'Anvers
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βIt took 10 years for the movement to acquire its definitive form, its independent vision, and its unique perceptiveness.β
Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881)
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βExperts point to 1874 as the year of departure for the movement that subsequently spawned modern art.β
Dance at Bougival - 1883
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Renoirβs work is a perfect illustration of this new approach in thought & technique.
The Rose Garden at Wargemont
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βBy using small, multicolored strokes, he evoked the vibration of the atmosphere, the sparkling effect of foliage,
Les Deux SΕurs on the terrace - 1881
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And especially the luminosity of a young womanβs skin in the outdoors.β
Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary
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Renoir and his companions stubbornly strove to produce light-suffused paintings from which black was excluded from their palettes.
Edouard Manet's daughters by Renoir
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Impressionism was naturally considered quite radical and frequently disparaged as it did not embrace the realism dictated by traditional aesthetic formulas.
The Doges Palace Venice
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Because of the then radical style of Impressionism the paintings were outright rejected by the juries of the Salon and difficult to sell.
The Great Boulevards
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Renoir, because of his fascination with the human figure, was distinctive among the others, who were more interested in landscape.
DeuxJeunes Filles au Piano - 1892
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Renoir was fortunate to have a champion in publisher Georges Charpentier, who introduced him to a more comfortable clientele,
Flower Study
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from whom he obtained commissions for portraits, most notably of women and children.
Women in a Garden
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Renoir mastered the ability to convey his immediate visual impressions, and his paintings showed great vibrancy, luminosity and joy of life despite his financial woes.
Girls picking Flowers
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Later Renoir rejected Impressionism and instead returned to a more classical style emphasizing volume, form, contours, & line rather than color & brushstroke.
LβEstaque
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His strong reaction against Impressionism continued until about 1890.
Bowl of Flowers 3
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βWhile in southern France, he recovered the instinctive freshness of his art;
Apples and Flowers
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he painted women at their bath with the same healthful bloom he would give to bouquets of flowersβ
Bather 4
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His finances improved and met and married Aline Charigot in 1890.
Claude and Renee aka Claude
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An exposition was organized for him in 1892 by the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, which fortunately proved to be a great success.
Coastal Landscape
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And which gave him a new confidence which was reflected in his work.
Flowers in a Vase
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Sadly, in 1894 Renoir suffered his first attack of rheumatism and moved to southern France for his health.
Young Girl With Daisies
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In 1899 he settled in the village of Cagnes; and in 1907 he bought the estate of Les Collettes, where he spent the rest of his life.
Cagney Landscape XII
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Gabrielle With A Rose, 1911:
Gabrielle Renard was the Renoir family's longtime nanny β and the artist's muse. He painted her hundreds of times.
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The Skiff (La Yole)
1875
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The Umbrellas - 1881
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In 1910 he was no longer able to walk. but despite his infirmities Renoir never ceased to paint; when his fingers were no longer supple, he continued by binding his paintbrush to his hand.
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Additional information:
Auguste Renoir (1841β1919)
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