I'm particularly interested in Impressionism, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Cezanne and Van Gogh are my favourite painters.
The Impressionist painters cell was constituted by Renoir, Manet and Monet.
One hundred and fifty years ago, he was the very painter of Paris, with his middle-class sights, his dance in Town or in the country, restaurants, Folk Suburban tavern by the You can't see anything sad or morose when you look at his paintings. |
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He was born at Limoges in 1841. "I love paintings in which I feel like having a walk inside if it's a landscape, or caressing a breast or a back if it's a female nude. " This Renoir's speech shows the way he considered the painting. After the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1862 he met Sisley, Bazille and Claude Monet. He used to work with them side by side, particularly to paint landscapes outdoor, Impressionists' common behaviour . He had a particular penchant for painting, on a fairly small scale, portraits of women in intimate brightly lit interiors. The female nude was from the beginning of Renoir's career a favourite theme, and , at the end, took on a new importance. After 1900, Renoir spent most of his time at his country property Les Colettes, at Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice. Crippled with rheumatism and confined to a wheel-chair, he still kept on painting. |
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Chemin montant dans les hautes herbes/Path Going up Through Long Grass
Despite his passion for painting figures, Renoir was interested in painting landscapes as well, just like Monet or any Impressionists.
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Path Going up Through Long Grass |
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Bal au Moulin de la galette, shows us working-class crowd having some dance in a small open-air drinking place at Montmartre, which is now one of the most important place for painters in Paris.
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The dance in Town |
Dance in the Country |
Girls at the Piano |
Woman Reading |
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