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385 рубRenoir
A leading member of the impressionist movement, Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) exhibited regu-larh at the annual Salons, where lie strove to enliven an establishment that had become stodgy with academic and history painting. Renoir's paintings of Parisians engaging in leisurely pastimes, enjoying their dejeuner under a pergola or beside the Seine at an open-air cafe, sailing, swimming, picnicking, and dancing at one of the many halls in towns outside of the city, are imbued with a sense of conviviality and joie de vivre that was wholly new to the Salons. Renoir was enchanted by his subjects: whether friends, lovers, patrons, collectors, or fam-ily members, his portraits are characterized by ges-ture, expression, and a soft palette full of light, conveying a sense of pleasure in observation and always the charm of the individual portrayed. Brought together here are some of this prodigious artist's most significant canvases, including the luminous he Moulin de la Galette, Luncheon of...
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2904 рубRenoir: His Life, Art, and Letters
Barbara Ehrlich White 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, rivaling even Picasso's, is a lifetime of struggle and anguish seldom hinted at in the work of this "happy painter." His efforts to find a new art to match his vision of the world created by light and warmth are vividly and intimately chronicled here through his letters and those of his friends and patrons. A comrade-in-arms of the other young artists who later became famous as the Impressionists, Renoir fought the entrenched establishment of the annual Salons, with their dead weight of academic allegories and histories. He brought contemporary Paris life in its leisure hours to his canvases, and opened up painting to a new world of art lovers. Barbara Ehrlich White, a renowned Renoir scholar, devoted more than twenty years to searching out unpublished letters and documents that reveal his...
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