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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Definition:[1841 - 1919]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."[...]Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugène Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th-century master François Boucher.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
painting 1: Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23598834' rel='noopener external ' target='_blank'>https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23598834painting 2: The Five Bathers (1918), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23598834' rel='noopener external ' target='_blank'>https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23598834
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I'm on a ride and I want to get off
But they won't slow down the roundabout
I sold the Renoir and the TV set
Don't want to be around when this gets out
Duran Duran. The Reflex (1984)
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“What a beautiful room you have here,” I said, looking across the rich cherry glow of furniture to see a life-sized painting of a nude, a pink Renoir.
Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)
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Renoir said he painted his pictures with his penis... he did too, lovely pictures!
D. H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929)
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Pavone wound slowly about the city in and out of the strong summer sunlight and the purple French shadows that Michael had known from the paintings of Cezanne and Renoir and Pissarro long before he had ever set foot on the soil of France,
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.494 (1948)
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People of taste and refinement tell us nowadays that Renoir is one of the great painters of the last century. But in so saying they forget the element of Time, and that it took a great deal of time, well into the present century, before Renoir was hailed as a great artist.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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In the great art museums, I eventually reached a saturation point and found myself walking right past brilliant masterpiece paintings by van Gogh, Renoir, Matisse, LeRoy Neiman, etc., without even glancing at them;
Dave Barry. Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down, pp.82-3 (2000)
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