Renoir

Renoir

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<div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>La belle vie: Impressionism's most joyful paintings</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text"> Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universally acclaimed: 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."<br /> <br /> Renoir€s entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women. Again and again he painted "these faunesses with their pouting lips" (Mallarm©) and invented a new image of feminity.</div> <div class="margin-bottom">  </div> <div class="margin-bottom" id="series_text" style="display: block;"> <strong>About the Series:</strong><br /> Each book in TASCHEN€s Basic Art series features:<ul> <li>a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance</li> <li>a concise biography</li> <li>approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions</li> </ul> </div> </div>