Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) is now universally acclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-heated, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action. "I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape," he said, "or pass my hand over breast or back if it's a women." Renoir's entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women. Again and again he painted "these faunessess with their pouting lips" (Mallarme) and invented a new image of feminity.
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Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) is now universally acclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-heated, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action. "I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape," he said, "or pass my hand over breast or back if it's a women." Renoir's entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women. Again and again he painted "these faunessess with their pouting lips" (Mallarme) and invented a new image of feminity.
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ISBN-13: | 9783836531092 |
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Publisher: | Taschen America, LLC |
Publication date: | 07/29/2016 |
Series: | Basic Art |
Pages: | 96 |
Sales rank: | 370,836 |
Product dimensions: | 8.40(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.60(d) |
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