Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir champions painting at its most lighthearted and luminous. This essential artist introduction selects key works from his extensive oeuvre to explore his Impressionist innovations as much as his traditions in pursuit of beauty, harmony, and the female form.
French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) enjoyed life to a degree seemingly denied most artists, and this joie de vivre is reflected in the lighthearted, sensual, and luminous elements of his work. Full-color reproductions and thorough text provide a quick yet solid introduction to this master.
This stunning book, published to accompany a major touring exhibition, examines Renoir's landscape art in depth, demonstrating that he was one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age.
Among the greatest of the Impressionists, Renoir is loved for his light-filled scenes and portraits of beautiful women, children, and people enjoying themselves. He is also among the most highly regarded of 19th-century painters for his masterly brushwork, sensuous appreciation of color and light, his gusto for life, and the charm and poetry of his works. This splendid collection of miniatures presents 16 of Renoir's most famous paintings in pressure-sensitive sticker format. Included are Woman with a Fan, La Loge, After the Bath, Self-Portrait, Girl in a Boat, Dance in the City, and ten more. Use these delightful stickers to decorate gifts, packages, letters, notebooks, and scores of other flat surfaces.
This book is in very good condition, has dust jacket which is in good shape.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) wird so sehr mit der Malerei des Impressionismus in Verbindung gebracht, dass die überraschende Vielfalt seines Frühwerks aus dem Blick gerät. Das wichtigste Modell der frühen Jahre des Künstlers war seine Geliebte Lise Tréhot, mit der er zwischen 1865 und 1872 ein Verhältnis pflegte. Nachdem sie für eine umfangreiche Gruppe wichtiger Frühwerke, darunter Die Dame mit dem Möwenhütchen und Im Sommer, beide aus dem Jahr 1868, posiert hatte, verabschiedete sich Lise vom Bohèmeleben zugunsten einer bürgerlichen Heirat. Die ab 1864 bis Ende der 1870er Jahre entstanden Bildern zeigen Renoirs künstlerisches Spektrum – die Entwicklung seiner Malsprache einschließlich der impressionistischen Phase. Die Publikation widmet sich erstmals ausführlich Renoirs frühem Œuvre und verdeutlicht die prägenden Einflüsse enger Künstlerfreundschaften mit Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Fréderic Bazille und Alfred Sisley. Ausstellung: Kunstmuseum Basel 1.4.–12.8.2012
