Renoir

ISBN-13:	9783836531092
Publisher:	Taschen America, LLC
Publication date:	07/29/2016
Series:	Basic Art
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	182,369
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.60(d)

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.