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Pocket Painters: Renoir 1841-1919
The Pocket Painters series is beautifully designed to build up into a library of the world's best loved painters. each volume contains a selection of twenty of the finest examples of the artist's work, carefully reproduced in miniature size.
Bibliographical note: No author is quoted in this volume so the designers of the work have been used for cataloguing purposes. To use Pierre August Renoir would be incorrect for there is an introduction, which is definitely not by Renoir (!) and the paintings, obviously by Renoir, are the illustrations within the book.
Bibliographical note: No author is quoted in this volume so the designers of the work have been used for cataloguing purposes. To use Pierre August Renoir would be incorrect for there is an introduction, which is definitely not by Renoir (!) and the paintings, obviously by Renoir, are the illustrations within the book.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published April 21, 1994
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August 27, 2019
The Pocket Painters series is a smashing series, each with a short introduction to the artist in question followed by a selection of their paintings all of which are superbly reproduced in miniature. 'Renoir' is no exception with 19 of his paintings demonstrating how from being an archetypal Impressionist painter he became more of a realist. However, he did mix his styles in later life.
For instance in 'The Rowers' Lunch' he focuses the emphasis on the rowers in the foreground while reverting to his Impressionist roots with his portrayal of the boating scene in the background ... and it works superbly well.
In later life he concentrated more on human figures - he particularly liked the nude woman - and his 'Blonde Girl Combing her Hair' (fully dressed, I should add) is exquisite and is very much a subtle and vibrant hymn to feminine beauty. Other of his women are sometimes in the Titan tradition, such as 'Bather Arranging her Hair'.
His early work 'Path through the Long Grass' pays homage to Monet - vide that artist's 'Wild Poppies' - in its atmosphere and composition while his 'Bather, Seated' has something like a classical serenity.
It's an excellent book, with its useful short introduction to the artist and his work, and one which can be looked at often to appreciate Renoir's genius, particularly, one of my favourites, 'Luncheon of the Boating Party', which reproduces very well considering the size of the original.
For instance in 'The Rowers' Lunch' he focuses the emphasis on the rowers in the foreground while reverting to his Impressionist roots with his portrayal of the boating scene in the background ... and it works superbly well.
In later life he concentrated more on human figures - he particularly liked the nude woman - and his 'Blonde Girl Combing her Hair' (fully dressed, I should add) is exquisite and is very much a subtle and vibrant hymn to feminine beauty. Other of his women are sometimes in the Titan tradition, such as 'Bather Arranging her Hair'.
His early work 'Path through the Long Grass' pays homage to Monet - vide that artist's 'Wild Poppies' - in its atmosphere and composition while his 'Bather, Seated' has something like a classical serenity.
It's an excellent book, with its useful short introduction to the artist and his work, and one which can be looked at often to appreciate Renoir's genius, particularly, one of my favourites, 'Luncheon of the Boating Party', which reproduces very well considering the size of the original.
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