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Renoir. Painter of Happiness (Hardcover)
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Renoir. Painter of Happiness (Hardcover)
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"Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in
the world." -Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir's
timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of
happiness, love, and beauty. TASCHEN's Renoir: Painter of
Happiness, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work yet
published, examines the personal history and motivation behind the
legend. Though he began by painting landscapes in the Impressionist
style, Renoir (1841-1919) found his true affinity once he started
painting portraits, after which he abandoned the Impressionists
altogether. Though often misunderstood and criticized, Renoir
remains one of history's most well-loved painters-undoubtedly
because his works exude such warmth, tenderness, and good cheer. In
an incisive text tracing the artist's career and stylistic
evolution, Gilles Neret shows how Renoir reinvented the female form
in painting, with his everyday goddesses and their plump forms,
rounded hips and breasts. This last phase in Renoir's work, in
which he returned to the simple pleasure of painting the female
nude in his baigneuses series, was his most innovative and
stylistically influential, and an inspiration to both Matisse and
Picasso. With a complete chronology, bibliography, index of works,
and 600 sumptuous large-format color reproductions, as well as
photos and sketches illustrating Renoir's life and work, this is
the essential work of reference on this enduring master artist.
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