Pierre-Auguste Renoir

by Feist, Peter H.

• ISBN13: 9783836539654
• ISBN10: 3836539659
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-10-15
• Publisher: Taschen America Llc

Summary

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. About the Series: Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features: a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions a concise biography