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Auguste Renoir |
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| Born: 1841 - Died: 1919. |
| Renoir is a famous French painter, whom with other artists, such as Monet, Sisley and Bazille, became associated with the Impressionist movement.
Renoir was born in Limoges, France on February 25 1841; he was born into a working class family.
Renoir’s first encounter with painting dates from his childhood, when he worked in a porcelain factory, where his drawing talent led to him painting designs on china.
Around 1861-2 Renoir moved to Paris, joining the fashionable painter Charles Gleyre in his studio.
In 1869 he and Monet began spending more time with each other, and sketching together, and during this time Renoir began to use broken brushstrokes and bold combinations of pure complimentary colours, to capture both light and movement.
Around the 1880s Renoir began traveling, visiting Italy, Holland, Spain, England, Germany and North Africa.
Renoir's work is about pleasure, and reveals no great seriousness. He shocked Gleyre by saying, 'if painting were not a pleasure to me I should certainly not do it'.
Throughout his career Renoir was subject to a variety of influences on his work, he greatly admired the work of artists such as Velázquez, Rubens and Raphael. The impact of these artists can be clearly seen in Renoir’s later works.
Renoir's work is about pleasure, and reveals no great seriousness. He shocked Gleyre by saying, 'if painting were not a pleasure to me I should certainly not do it'.
Throughout his life Renoir was an optimist, this is evident in his early life when rheumatoid arthritis severely hampered his movement and he was forced to paint by strapping a brush to his arm, and created sculptures by directing an assistant who worked the clay, Renoir's painting was always beautiful and optimistic! So was his view of life and his painful condition. The pain passes, but the beauty remains was Renoir's words.
Renoir’s paintings present a vision of a forgotten world, full of sparkling colour and light. Renoir once said: Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. |
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