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Renoir was a leading artist in the development of the Impressionist Art movement. He is known as a painter of people and of social life. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limogues, France in 1841 into a working class background. When he was four his family moved to Paris where he grew up.
THROUGHOUT HIS LONG AND SUCCESSFUL CAREER, FRENCH ARTIST Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) represented his world in landscapes; views of Paris and the surrounding country-side; intimate portraits of friends, family, and fellow artists; detailed scenes of modern life; and idealized images of women.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement's most popular practitioners. He is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure in the last three decades of the 19thcentury. Though celebrated as a colorist with a keen eye for capturing the movement of light and s...
Working alongside Claude Monet, Renoir was essential to developing Impressionist style in the late 1860s, but there is a decidedly human element to his work that sets him apart. Renoir had a brilli...Renoir was the first Impressionist to perceive the potential limitations of an art based primarily on optical sensation and light effects. Though his discoveries in this field would always remain i...Renoir's example became indispensable for the major French movements of high modernism: Fauvism and Cubism. Like Renoir, the progenitors of these styles focused on issues of color, composition, and...Childhood
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born into a working-class family in Limoges, a city in the central west region of France. The area is historically significant as the center of French porcelain production, reaching that status during the 19thcentury. Fittingly, Renoir's first artistic job, during his teens, was as a painter in one of the town's porcelain factories. The son of a tailor and a seamstress, Renoir had a steady hand and a talent for decorative effect, which earned him praise from his empl...
Early Training
In 1862, Renoir began his formal training under Charles Gleyre, a Swiss-born academic painter who instructed a number of talented painters, among them Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille, three of Renoir's future Impressionist colleagues with whom he became close friends upon entering Gleyre's Paris studio. During their training, Renoir and his new friends would venture into the scenic forest of Fontainebleau to engage in plein air painting. However, unlike Monet and Sisley, Ren...
Mature Period
Immediately following the brief but tumultuous Franco-Prussian War (in which Renoir fought) and the occupation of the French Commune in 1871, Renoir's early success began to take a turn for the worse. Rejections from the Salon far outnumbered acceptances, due in no small part to the "unfinished" quality his newer work assumed. His fortunes reached a point where Renoir was faced with the choice of either paying models or buying paint. While others of his colleagues like Claude Monet and Camill...
- French
- February 25, 1841
- Limoges, France
- December 3, 1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919) Gabrielle, ca. 1900 Oil on canvas Private Collection; L2022:139.11 Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a leader of the French Impressionist movement in the 19thcentury. He is known for his intimate portraits of women, who are often painted with saturated colors and thin brushstrokes that dissolve distinct outlines.
In this analysis, we will be making a comparison essay between two paintings from two major art movements: Impressionism, the painting “Bal du Moulin de la Galette”, 1876 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Neo-Impressionism in which we chose the painting of Georges Seurat, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”, 1884-86.
Sep 13, 2024 · Impressionism, a broad term used to describe the work produced in the late 19th century, especially between about 1867 and 1886, by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The founding Impressionist artists included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, and Berthe ...
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Perhaps more than any other Impressionist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir possessed a deep appreciation for the French landscape, which he beautifully expressed through his art. This oil on canvas, entitled Au bord de la rivière, reveals his mastery over the genre.
