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Auguste Renoir

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Auguste Renoir

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1. Depicts carefree world filled with people 2. luminous color and light. 3. joie de vivre 4. >6,000 paintings in his lifetime

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1. Rejects fleeting moment of Monet2. sees classic impressionism as dead end.3. constantly changing style4. maintains some classic elements

Auguste Renoir

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1. Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world

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1. Born feb 25, 1841 Limoges 2. father a tailor and mother seamstress 3. moves to Paris age 4. 4. excellent singer Gounod recruits but prefers drawing

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1 age 13 apprenticed to porcelain factory and becomes expert painter 2. 1860 age 19 enters studio Gleyre meets Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Cezanne, and Degas

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1862 enters Ecole des Beaux Arts 2. 1863 visits Salon des Refuses 3. hangs out Café Guerbois and listens
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1866 still life 2. shares studio with Bazille and wealthy friend Jules Le Coeur helps 3. two paintings salon 1865 but ignored 4. very poor
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1867 Diana huntress 1. meets LiseTrehot 1865 mistress 1865-18727 years2. reflects influence of classical style
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1868 summertime 1867 and 1869 paintings of Lise accepted but ignored 2. already solid impressionist 3. 1870 drafted and friend Bazille killed
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1870 la grenouillere 1.After the war moves with parents to Louveciennes and paints with Monet. 2. both paint Frog Pond
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Renoir on left Monet on right 2. Monet far superior crisper better dililneation
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1870 odalesque accepted salon 1. homage to Manet and Ingres? 1. distorted anatomy 2. color juxtapose 3. eye contact 4 sensuality
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1870 the promenade style maturing – classic impressionist style 2. narrative unclear
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1872 pont neuf cityscape 2. elevated view 3. slice of life 4. bright 5. foreground diagonal6 THREE AREAS
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1873 monet painting in the garden 1. opens studio Montmatre. 2. Caillbotte helps financially 3. founding member Societe Anonyme monet sisley degas pissarro morisot
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1874 the loge 1. new model Margo Legrand 2. 1874 exhibit 3,500 attend versus 400,000 salon 3. ok reviews. And sells one painting 4. Charpentiers become patrons 5. opera box
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1874 dancer Degas influence 2. portrait rather than action scene
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1875 torso effect of sunlight
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1875 girl crocheting 2. renoir central to second exhibit 3. focus on portraits and commissions
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1876 the swing 1 1877 exhibit caillbotte finances 2. shows swing and Moulin de la Galette
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1876 moulin a la galette 1. masterpiece 2. doesn’t show ..4th and 5th 3. 1878 back at salon where he sells well
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1876 jeanne durand ruel daughter of art broker/critic
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1878 madame charpentier and children 1. shown salon 1879 2. has become artist of fashionable
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1880 by the water 1. Margo dies of small pox 2. new model Aline Charigot 18 years younger
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1880 lunch boating party 1. best known work 2. star of exhibit 3. caillebotte lower right 4. aline lower left
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1881 two sisters on the terrace 1. classic Renoir 2. finances better and goes to Italy and algeria for 5 months
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1881 still life with fruit
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1881 venice more abstract
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1882 steps in algeria
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1882 still life with roses
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1882 marie therese durand ruel 2. new style losing patrons and market tanks leaving finances shaky again
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1882 durand ruel brothers 1. abandons new style returns to cleaner line and cooler color
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1882 dance in the city
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1882 dance at bougival movement unusual2. female is suzanne Valadon
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1883 umbrellas very closed in 2 center is woman lower left 3. more precise line
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1885 in the garden 1. 1885 son Pierre born kept secret as Aline lower class 2. show at Les Vingt in Brussels and 38 works shown Druand Ruel in New york
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1887 large bathers 1. second N.Y. show 2. begins classical nudes with sharper outline and impression background 3. 3 years in making
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1892 girl at piano 1. changes style again more domestic lighter tints 2. now selling better than Monet 3. 1890 marries Aline
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1894 berte morisot and daughter julie 1. gaining patrons 2. son Jean born 1894 3. Gabrielle Renard cousin to Aline new model

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1895 gabrielle and jean renoir
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1896 family of artist 1. moves to Essoyes south east of Paris middle nowhere
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1904 bather very popular 2. frequent shows. Getting 22,000 francs per painting 3. made chevalier Legion of Honneur 4. third son 1901
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1906 la promenade moves to southern france for warmth
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1910 self portrait doing some sculpting 2. friends are mostly dead
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1918 the bathers 1. Aline dies 1914 and he dies 12/3/1919 Zola “Renoir is above all a painter of people. The dominant feature of his work lies in his range of tones and the way in which they are combined in a wonderful harmony”