Renoir's Life and Work
• Disagreed with teacher but accepted its discipline in order to acquire the elementary skills needed to become a painter.
• Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, and Frédéric Bazille, and Renoir dreamed of an art that was closer to life and free from past traditions
• painted friends in parents Portrait of the Painter Bazille (1867), The Painter Sisley and His Wife (1868), and Monet Painting in His Garden (1873)
• moved temporarily to the forest of Fontainebleau, where they devoted themselves to painting directly from nature
• Manet's daring made him, in the eyes of these young artists, the leader of a new movement.
• using small, multicoloured strokes, he evoked the vibration of the atmosphere, the sparkling effect of foliage, and especially the luminosity of a young woman's skin in the outdoors
• strove to produce light-suffused paintings from which black was excluded
• were frequently rejected by the juries of the Salon and were extremely difficult to sel
• because of his fascination with the human figure, was distinctive among the others, who were more interested in landscape
• thanks to the publisher Georges Charpentier, to upper-middle-class society, from whom he obtained commissions for portraits, most notably of women and children.
• mastered the ability to convey his immediate visual impressions, and his paintings showed great vitality, emphasizing the pleasures of life despite the financial worries that troubled him
• date from this period: La Loge (1874; “The Theatre Box”), Le Moulin de la galette (1876), The Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881), and Mme Charpentier and Her Children (1878). Charpentier organized a personal exposition for the works of Renoir in 1879 in the gallery La Vie Moderne.
• In 1881 and 1882 Renoir made several trips to Algeria, Italy, and Provence, and these eventually had a considerable effect on his art and on his life
• small brushstrokes of contrasting colours placed side by side did not allow him to convey the satiny
• Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, and Frédéric Bazille, and Renoir dreamed of an art that was closer to life and free from past traditions
• painted friends in parents Portrait of the Painter Bazille (1867), The Painter Sisley and His Wife (1868), and Monet Painting in His Garden (1873)
• moved temporarily to the forest of Fontainebleau, where they devoted themselves to painting directly from nature
• Manet's daring made him, in the eyes of these young artists, the leader of a new movement.
• using small, multicoloured strokes, he evoked the vibration of the atmosphere, the sparkling effect of foliage, and especially the luminosity of a young woman's skin in the outdoors
• strove to produce light-suffused paintings from which black was excluded
• were frequently rejected by the juries of the Salon and were extremely difficult to sel
• because of his fascination with the human figure, was distinctive among the others, who were more interested in landscape
• thanks to the publisher Georges Charpentier, to upper-middle-class society, from whom he obtained commissions for portraits, most notably of women and children.
• mastered the ability to convey his immediate visual impressions, and his paintings showed great vitality, emphasizing the pleasures of life despite the financial worries that troubled him
• date from this period: La Loge (1874; “The Theatre Box”), Le Moulin de la galette (1876), The Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881), and Mme Charpentier and Her Children (1878). Charpentier organized a personal exposition for the works of Renoir in 1879 in the gallery La Vie Moderne.
• In 1881 and 1882 Renoir made several trips to Algeria, Italy, and Provence, and these eventually had a considerable effect on his art and on his life
• small brushstrokes of contrasting colours placed side by side did not allow him to convey the satiny