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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born in 1841, was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau". (Wikipedia)

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Moosekarloff (22)
08/07/2003
A master of application, a fine colorist with a very advanced sense of surface, but essentially too decorative and not challenging enough to the viewer to rate with the greats. Renoir is a curious one, however, in that his approach combines the new and contemporary in a technical sense with a traditional and somewhat backward-looking sensibility in terms of subject matter, mood, and presentation of the image. He did some very lovely paintings, but he didn't influence anyone. He was sorta related to the Impressionist movement (more of a post-Impressionist), but not really in the same league with some of his contemporaries.

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twinmom101 (33)
06/03/2003
If a Renior painting can't brighten your mood up a little, probably nothing will. What attracts me to him most is his vibrant use of color and happy scenes. His Luncheon of the Boating Party is a good example. Even the glasses on the table seem to gleam with light. Renoir also used his own friends and family in his paintings. His wife Aline Charigot appears in several of his paintings. Like other impressionists he was adept with light, his painting The Swing being a good example and he had an uncanny knack for painting children's portraits- his Portrait of Madamoiselle Romaine Lacaux being my personal favorite with the delicate red flowers beset so nicely with the young girl's grey dress. Lucklily I live near Chicago where the Art Museum houses an impressive collection of Renoir and other Impressionists. Worth the trip every time.

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optimist (0)
05/06/2003
I love Renoir. His art reveals his love of people. A guidebook to the Musee d'Orsay said that he was "searching for an ideal beauty," but to me he wasn't so other-worldly. His subjects are flesh and blood.

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Plumpbottom40 (0)
05/07/2001
He may be the artist most confused with Monet but Renoir has wonderful characteristics of his own. His use of colors like coral and robin's egg blue is amazing. These colors are so vibrant and as a rule should only be used to accentuate a painting according to many art teachers of old, but Renoir uses these as principle colors and his works always feel so incredibly warm to the eye. His lively brushstrokes are applied lovingly and methodically. His subjects rarely ever exude anything less than contentment. This is an artist who helped to define the Impressionist movement alongside men like Degas and Monet; and although it would seem the easiest thing to lump them all together, Renoir, to me, stands out above all the rest!

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