Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is universally acclaimed and celebrated: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, 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 woman.' Renoir's entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women-again and again he painted 'these faunesses with their pouting lips' (Mallarmé) and invented a new image of feminine beauty and sensuality. A prolific painter-he made several thousand works in his lifetime-he is perhaps the most beloved of the Impressionists.Sayfa Sayısı: 96Baskı Yılı: 2012Dili: İngilizce / AlmancaYayınevi: Taschen)