In 2010, a hundred works of Renoir were exhibited at the Grand Palais,
in a beautiful exhibition of his paintings of the period of the early twentieth century.
Over 15 rooms devoted to him and when I first discovered, I met with
always a pleasure,
the two huge paintings of the dancers who are usually
presented at the Musée d'Orsay.
This first painting with warm colors for Dance in the Country (1897)
The second on cold tones for Dance in the City (1883 )
In this room, we found also "Girls at the Piano" (1892),
the first acquisition of museums in Paris is also famous
and this whole talent of the painter who began yet
already suffer from arthritis.
In another room, many tables scattered children exposure
including her own children.
I also liked the warm tones and gold that covers the canvas of "Landscape at Beaulieu"
where the colors are mixed, as in a dance.
Not clear, but the wind and the light changing every moment
landscape.
Further, it is the Renoir nudes are presented.
The body of bathers exposed
series offered in iridescent colors and warm clean to the artist.
series offered in iridescent colors and warm clean to the artist.
The reference to antiquity is implied but Renoir revisits his own way. The anatomical accuracy
giving way to
monumentality and the painter's palette turns more quickly.
monumentality and the painter's palette turns more quickly.
I also discovered that at the end of his life, Renoir
has made sculptures here are some examples.
has made sculptures here are some examples.
There is also this wonderful picture of the woman with the guitar
The daughters of Henry Lerolle piano (1897)
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paintings and many other equally beautiful than others.
The painter said he does not
"'there is no boundary between a designer and an artist."
"'there is no boundary between a designer and an artist."
Citations of Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"The painting is learned in museums."
"The pain passes, the beauty remains."
"One morning, one of us missing black, used the blue:
Impressionism was born."
And for those who want to know a little better painter
who devoted his life to painting, here is his biography.
painter, engraver and sculptor born in French Limoges
died at Cagnes (Alpes-Maritimes).
Renoir was born into a poor family.
His father was a humble tailor who entertained with great difficulty his family.
Renoir began painting on porcelain;
it was somehow learning.
To live, then he decorated fans and blinds.
Having saved some money by his work,
he could enter the studio and met Monet Gleyre 1862.
Gleyre probably did not think highly of his pupil
when he asked the young artist sitting in front of his canvas:
"This is probably fun as you paint?"
- "But certainly," Renoir,
and if that does not amuse me, I beg you to believe that I would not. "
Left to itself by Gleyre
- somewhat disdainfully -
Renoir took the opportunity to work according to his tastes
by copying great masters in the Louvre.
One day painting in the Fontainebleau forest,
he was attacked by
kids who made fun of his old coat porcelain.
It was rescued by the arrival of a vigorous man despite his wooden leg:
was Diaz
who befriended him and allowed him to source colors to their account.
Renoir's painting, initially influenced by Courbet,
found its first performance in 1867,
and Lise is a work that are already fixed the major issues dear to Renoir:
light and the female body.
It also remains true to his admiration for Delacroix and his Parisian
dressed in Algerian,
canvas refused at the Salon of 1872,
are directly inspired by the Women of Algiers,
Renoir and Monet often worked side by side,
performing works in the same spirit of research:
the Grenouillère (1869) (See biography of Monet)
and later, the duck pond (1873).
A strong friendship bound them, encouraging them to pool their technological discoveries.
At the outbreak of the war, Renoir was enrolled in Bordeaux.
He returned to Paris at the end of hostilities.
Recovering to work immediately, it
then painted the lively street of Paris whose bill moves between Corot and Lepine:
Le Pont-Neuf (1872).
would allow him to divide the tone, lighten his palette,
study all transformations of the light.
while the latter, at the urging of Berthe Morisot,
is converted to light paint.
these working sessions on the banks of the Seine are memorable.
These are moments of intense activity.
the middle of a noisy and busy life,
in the lucid mind of all these painters,
technical discoveries succeed.
The new painting is accurate .
The first exhibition Group (1874), Renoir
organization to which he participated,
would put this new painting show to everyone.
If the auction of 1875 was a disaster
that Durand-Ruel attended powerless
at least it allowed Renoir to discover a new lover:
Chocquet. It offered him very quickly, as
his admiration for his painting was great,
to execute the portrait of his wife.
For Renoir, he later became an amateur active and generous support.
Renoir, continuing his research on the brightness of the atmosphere,
applies to the opportunity to translate different themes
and continues in settings as diverse
theater:
Lodge (1874), The First Release (1876); ;
Outdoors:
Le Moulin de la Galette (1876), Jeanne Samary (1877), and finally
he is not afraid to tackle society portraits by
ask Madame Charpentier and Her Children (1878), wife of the publisher.
While having participated in the Impressionist exhibitions from 1877 to 1879,
this last year he was admitted to the Salon.
In 1880, staying at Croissy, he began his famous composition:
where he once again evokes the sensual and happy life that he loves.
Theme difficult and complex that it can use all the resources of his hand,
where it can translate, in the bright light a summer day, all the subtleties
particularly acute sensations.
From 1881 to 1883, despite difficulties, he lived in Algeria.
Then he made a journey, determining the future of his work,
in Italy where he visited Florence, Venice, Rome, Naples and Pompeii.
In 1882 and 1883, he stayed and worked with Cezanne Estaque.
The year 1884 marked his detachment impressionistic designs.
Influenced still vibrating from the shock felt in Italy.
Renoir undertakes research that we called it linear.
The form has a greater tendency to be absorbed by light
the contrary, it is described by line;
contour narrows and then do more precise
"He produces works whose subject matter may vary,
sometimes thick and rough
but all have in common pure linear contour
atmosphere stripped (D. Rouart: Renoir).
Again in 1885,1888,1889,
he spent long periods with Cézanne in 1890 ,
he breaks with his recent style and Once a bill passed this creamy
soft, pearly, which will be of great importance in his work,
and set in the minds of many, the image of Renoir.
Now, the main elements of his style are fixed. There
until his death vary in the components, but
n'enregistera more abrupt in his work
or conflicting changes.
In 1891, again, he stayed in the south.
The following year he traveled to Spain,
and Durand-Ruel in Paris organized a major exhibition of his works.
in 1894 without fully achieving its goal
he struggles to accept the State's magnificent legacy of Caillebotte.
This was not until 1897 that this legacy, cut a large number of tables,
may enter the collections of the State.
is achieved for the first time in 1898
acute rheumatism, disease that should be the end of the ordeal of his life.
From 1905 to 1909
his illness worsens and he decided to settle permanently in the south.
He buys at Cagnes Field Collettes
where he built himself and his home studio.
In 1912, his illness is getting worse,
he tirelessly pursued his work,
can no longer paint brushes that by tying her wrists.
Despite his health, surrounded by knowledgeable practitioners,
he managed to achieve an important work
which ranks among the leading sculptors of his time.
He died at Cagnes December 3, 1919.
(excerpted from the great painters)
That's it for today,
tomorrow is another day ....
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