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"Tells the story of the first truly modern artistic movement, focusing on five of its most important practitioners, Renoir, Monet, Degas, Pissarro, and Morisot. Their determination to remain true to their convictions--and the price they paid as a result--is vividly captured in their own words, taken from letters and diaries, while the world's foremost authorities offer fascinating insights into their lives and work"--Container
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The era of impressionism, that transformed the world of art at the end of the nineteenth century is described through the life of Auguste Renoir. Renoir served his apprenticeship as a decorator of porcelain in Paris. He painted portraits for a living until he won serious critical attention. Illness made his years an enduring battle against physical affliction.
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The French Impressionist Pierre-Augustin Renoir created an immense sun-dappled world of beautiful women, attentive men, joyful babies, verdant foliage, and perfectly formed fruits and flowers. This enticing volume recaptures his world and views is from present-day social and aesthetic perspectives. It is illustrated with 140 full-page colorplates spanning Renoir's entire career. The colorplates are copiously supplemented by black-and-white documentary...
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This program studies Pierre-Auguste Renoir's charming composition The Moulin de la Galette, a marvelous interweaving of sunlight and soft, hazy blue-and a genial proclamation of the Impressionist school. The nuanced color, the subtly overlapping brushstrokes, the artful blurring of the figures, and other technical elements are considered.
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John House examines the many facets of the work and what it reveals about Renoir as a man and artist. He asks, "What did it mean to paint a picture like La Promenade in France in 1870, in the final months of Napoleon III's Second Empire?" The reader is invited to look at the canvas - and Impressionism - as a rejection of the idealist world of academic art and as a challenge to contemporary social norms.
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This program studies Pierre-Auguste Renoir's charming composition The Moulin de la Galette, a marvelous interweaving of sunlight and soft, hazy blue-and a genial proclamation of the Impressionist school. The nuanced color, the subtly overlapping brushstrokes, the artful blurring of the figures, and other technical elements are considered.
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During the seventy-eight years of his life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted thousands of paintings and made uncounted drawings, watercolors, and sketches. Behind this prodigious output is a lifetime of struggle and anguish seldom hinted at in the work of this "happy painter." Barbara Ehrlich White has devoted more than twenty years to searching out unpublished letters and documents that reveal his life as an artist and as a man. She brilliantly contrasts...
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"Throughout his long working life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) produced large-format portraits and subject pictures. From the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s--the decade of Impressionism--his vertical, grand-scale canvases were among the artist's most daring and ambitious presentations of contemporary life and fashion. Today they rank among the masterpieces of Impressionism. This stunning book offers fresh insights into Renoir's complex ambitions...
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The program explores the life of the great Impressionist painter Renoir by looking at some of his most famous paintings and examining his role and influence in the Impressionist movement. Renoir was a key member of the Impressionist group who loved to paint out of doors, famous in particular for his depiction of the joyful side of Parisian life. Later in his life however Renoir broke away from the Impressionist movement and adopted a more traditional,...
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