Capolavori di renoir biography
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Educational program CÉZANNE / RENOIR Capolavori dal Musée de l’Orangerie e dal Musée d’Orsay
150 years after the first exhibition of the Impressionists - held in Paris between April 15th and May 15th, 1874 - in Palazzo Reale Milano we are able to admire the works of two of the main masters of modern art, Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The exhibition - featuring masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie and the Musée d'Orsay - tells the entire careers of the two artists, from their early works of the 1870s to their mature works at the beginning of the 20th century.
For the foreign visitors Ad Artem offers two different ways to visit the exhibition, giving the opportunity to choose between guided tours and visits with workshop activities. This dual approach allows for an in-depth understanding of the work of Cézanne and Renoir, and to focus with great attention on the most innovative aspects of their production.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Lab tour
Young visitors will b
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Pierre Auguste Renoir, the most famous women he portrayed
Today I would like to remember the great French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), dwelling on the relationship with the many women who crossed his life and whom he immortalized in his paintings from the 1860s until his death in 1919.
Renoir did not take long indeed to be considered the greatest painter of women and this is what the art critic Joris-Karl Huysmans told after visiting the impressionist exhibition of 1882: “He is the true painter of young women, the bloom of whose skin, velvet flesh, darting eye, and elegant finery, he renders with sunlit gaiety”.
And again the writer Marcel Proust: “the world (which was not created just once, but as often as a truly original artist appears) looks entirely different to us from the old one, but perfectly clear. Women pass in the street, different from those of the past, since they are Renoirs”.
Certainly Renoir was the painter of joie de vivre and
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Author: Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Title:Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
Date:1876
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:H. 131; W. 175 cm
Current location:© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
Bal du moulin de la Galette [Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette] is doubtless Renoir's* most important work of the mid 1870's and was shown at the Impressionist* exhibition in 1877.
Though some of his friends appear in the picture, Renoir's main aim was to convey the vivacious and joyful atmosphere of this popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre.
The study of the moving crowd, bathed in natural and artificial light, is handled using vibrant, brightly coloured brushstrokes.
The somewhat blurred impression of the scene prompted negative reactions from contemporary critics.
This portrayal of popular Parisian life, with its innovative style and imposing format, a sign of Renoir's* artistic ambition, is one of the masterpieces of early I