Pierre Auguste Renoir
was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. In 1845, his father, a tailor by trade, moved his family to Paris in hopes of finding his fortunes in the capital. They moved into a small apartment building which has been part of a sixteenth century housing complex for the Palace Guard. He developed, throughout his childhood, an intense love of the city and its people (www.augusterenoir.com).
Renoir was not an exceptional student. Perhaps this was due to his generally shy and quiet personality. He had a terrible fear of drawing any attention to himself and retained this dislike throughout his career. Although Renoir had three brothers, he always felt much closer to his mother and ...
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parents. However, it would be some time before Renoir would consider himself an artist. He continued to paint porcelain until automation rendered hand decoration obsolete.
Since his fans required different subject matters and themes than the porcelain, Renoir renewed his visits to Louvre in search of workable ideas. He discovered the sensuous, sometimes frivolous, works of Fragonard, Boucher, and Watteau. His taste in art was being formed. As he later started about Boucher's, "Diane au bain": "it was the first picture to thrill me, and I've continued to love it all my life as one does love one's first loves" (Tyler, 37).
In 1862, he had saved sufficient money to enable him to study full-time. "he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at the same time, entered the studio of Charles Gleyre" (De Grada, 81). Here, Renoir met three painters were Claude Monet, Federic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley.
Artist's Major Works
Renoir painted many classic and major paintings. Many of ...
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painting are nude. Renoir had been determined in this painting to produce a major work glorifying the female nude in a manner that could only rank with the Old Masters. "The linear, classical emphasis of the nudes contrast with the loser handling of the rest of the painting, but this may be an example of the sort of irregularity that Renoir was trying to achieve." The contrast between the background and the women, make the women stand out. This painting can be found at the Philadelphia Museum of art.
Works Examined
Of course, I examined two of Renoir's major works, but I also examined two other paintings of Renoir. One of the works I examined is known as "The Swing." The ...
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