Renoir
Fundamental Paintings to Understand the History of Painting
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Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881). Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Oil on canvas. 129.5 x 172.7 cm
Collection Phillips. Washington D.C., United States
Among Impressionists, Renoir dazzles and cheers up more the viewer than any other Impressionist.
He also worried about the light effects, the color composition —with small brushstrokes of different tones that our eyes combine— and about capturing the instant, but he performed a more human painting. He captured “instants” —not of landscapes usually— but of people in ephemeral, simple moments full of joy.
Renoir became an artisan and considered that the act of painting can grant satisfaction of a well-done manual work. He was against the intellectualization of his work. We can appreciate the artisan in the technique with which he solved each work, as we can appreciate in this one. Nevertheless, he had a simple, direct spirit. And that is what moves his work closer to the viewer.
The important things and moments are sometimes the ones which seem less important. For Renoir, the happiest people are the peasants who have work, food and sun. He expressed that when he stopped painting would live in the sun and nothing else.
Some people consider him “the painter of happiness” A joy that that can be appreciated in his palette of colors.
Recommended links:
Fundamental Paintings to Understand the History of Painting: Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet.
Fundamental Paintings to Understand the History of Painting: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso.
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