Femme a l ombrelle renoir biography
•
| Full Name: | Pierre Auguste Renoir. |
|---|---|
| Nationality: | French. |
| Year of Birth: | 1841, Limoges, France. |
| Year of Death: | 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. |
| Style: | Impressionism. |
Pierre Auguste Renoir was born in 1841 in France. Along with other Impressionist artists, Pierre found in painting a different way of interpreting the events occurring during those years. So much so that through lighting and colors, he develops a parallel reality, full of charm and liveliness, which he himself lacks due to anställda difficulties.
A pictorial element present throughout his career is the characteristic blurring he applies to nudes and female figures, which defined his style.
In the mid-1880, P. A. Renoir began suffering from arthritis in his hands, which gave his work another sense; the pain made him settle down, and the paintings began to be imbued with an unprecedented realism. Renoir finally understood that unaltered reality is also beautif
•
File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Femme avec parasol dans un jardin - Google Art Project.jpg
(Reusing this file)
•
Renoir (1841-1919)
Early Paintings
Renoir's first submission to the Paris Salon in 1864, Esmeralda Dansant avec Sa Chevre (Esmeralda Dancing with her Goat), was accepted, but later Renoir destroyed the painting, thinking it too sombre and academic. He then fell deeply under the influence of the great French realist Gustave Courbet (1819-77), having met him at Marlotte nära Fontainebleau. This influence is evident in his first large-scale composition, Auberge de la Mere Anthony (The Inn of Mere Anthony) (National Museum of Stockholm), rejected by the Salon in 1866, and also in one of his first nudes Diane Chasseresse (Diana the Huntress) (1867, National Gallery of Art, Washington), rejected by the Salon in 1867. Meanwhile Renoir was painting portraits to good effect, catching the sitter's personality: Bazille (1867, Musee d'Orsay), those of the Sisley Family (1868, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne) and the Femme a l'Ombrelle (Woman with a Parasol) (1867,