Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universallyacclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flockto his retrospectives. His work shows art at its mostlight-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anythingugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action. "I like pictureswhich 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 woman."Renoir's entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women.Again and again he painted "these faunesses with their poutinglips" (Mallarme) and invented a new image of feminity.
【目录】
Renoir's Family, Friends and Teachers 1841 -1867
A New Style of Art 1867-1871
The Great Decade of Impressionism 1872-1883
Masterpieces of Realist Impressionism
The Crisis of Impressionism and the "Dry Period" 1883-1887
Sickness and Old Age 1888-1919
Renoir's Late Works
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841 - 1919 : His Life and Work
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