Renoir

Renoir

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<div id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>La belle vie: Impressionism€s most joyful paintings</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div id="description_text"> <strong>Pierre-Auguste Renoir</strong> (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. €œI like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it€s a landscape,€ he said, €œor 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 €œthese faunesses with their pouting lips€ (Mallarm©) 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.</div> <div>  </div> <div 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>