Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1941-1919) was one of the founders of impressionism and friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks of the Seine, haring his concern with light and color, but landscape painting never displaced his enduring love of figurative painting. A natural heir to the delicacy of Boucher, Watteau and Fragonard, delight in the ample curves of the nudes he painted increasingly frequently in his later years, Renoir was also a master at capturing the spirit of Parisian life. His art is filled with optimism – his lifelong philosophy was that he painted because it gave him pleasure, and he shares that pleasure with those who see his work. It is almost always summer in his pictures, and paintings like moulin de galette, the Dance at Bougival and the  Luncheon of the Boating Party  he gives us and enduring record of his contemporaries relaxing and enjoy their leisure.

Autor: Gaunt, William.

Publicación: Medellin: Oxford: Phaidon, 1982

Este libro es una nueva adquisición del Sistema de Bibliotecas, y desde ahora puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral, Colección general, 759.4/G272