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shared by Jill Archer on 29 Jul 10 - Cached

No other artist has ever succeeded in clothing the human form so extravagantly with gorgeous colours, and few other painters could catch, as Renoir does so wonderfully, at the fleeting moment. You find it with his paintings that he made during the summers of the 1860s of La Grenouillere (or “The Frog Pond”)
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went out to Bougival looking for a bit of fun at weekends
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Here were to be found the amply proportioned doe-eyed young women that Renoir doted on
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Renoir did not paint figures in a court masque - he did not come from that social class.
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a painting should be both cheerful and pretty
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Renoir had little patience with the extremes of the European avant-garde
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Yet Renoir was above all else a painter of the ordinary people of Paris
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Renoir reacted to his diminishing powers after 20 years of martyrdom to pain, by painting bodies full of vitality and sensuality
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The first biography of Renoir was actually written by Julius Meier-Graefe
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Renoir’s last wish four years later, when he was wasted by suffering, was to be taken to the Louvre
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shared by Jill Archer on 29 Jul 10 - Cached

The Impressionists are the artists in France during the 1870s.
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They wanted their painterly technique to be open-ended
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the frog pond, has all these ingredients - a sketch-like painting, which to contemporaries seemed unfinished, no carved-out details, a glitter of sun reflecting the movements of the water, the boats partly truncated to convey a sense of the passing moment, and the individual details toned down in favour of the overall picture
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shared by Jill Archer on 29 Jul 10 - Cached

Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir
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struggled to give birth to some of the very first truly "impressionist" landscapes.
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The popular bathing and boating attraction was known as La Grenouillere
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"frog pond".
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"frog" was a slang expression used by young men of the time to refer to girls
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the two men painted the same boats and the same tiny island next to Fournaise's
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their richness of colour--stunning blues, deep, vibrant greens, and bright yellows
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