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Your opinion of Renoir's art

Started by jimmy olsen, November 10, 2015, 01:27:45 AM

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What's your opinion of Renoir's art

It's great!
6 (33.3%)
It's good.
8 (44.4%)
It's average.
3 (16.7%)
It's poor.
1 (5.6%)
It's wretched!
0 (0%)

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Valmy

#15
November 10, 2015, 12:34:35 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 10, 2015, 12:32:42 PM
Something which it is not and was never meant to be.

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#16
November 10, 2015, 12:42:05 PM
I'm assuming that these people are saying Renoir when they actually mean Gauguin.  Because it takes a very generous person to call Gauguin's daubs 'art," but only a moron would fail to appreciate the atmosphere and humor of "Luncheon of the Boating party."
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#17
November 10, 2015, 12:43:22 PM
Hiroshige >>> Renoir.
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#18
November 10, 2015, 01:14:46 PM
I thought Ide was back, and that was reviewing the Criterion edition of Jean Renoir's Rules of the game.  :Embarrass:

Seriously, since when Auguste Renoir is a cause for a culture war?  :blink:  :frog:

Savonarola

#19
November 10, 2015, 03:58:04 PM
Renoir's impressionism is great, but his late period leaves a great deal to be desired.  I think Mary Cassatt described his later paintings best as being filled with "Enormously fat red women with very small heads."
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#20
November 10, 2015, 05:04:38 PM
This guy is not worthy of languish comment (a very low bar).  15 minutes of fame is too much.
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garbon

#21
November 10, 2015, 05:17:24 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 10, 2015, 12:42:05 PM
Because it takes a very generous person to call Gauguin's daubs 'art,"

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#22
November 10, 2015, 08:37:53 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 10, 2015, 05:04:38 PM
This guy is not worthy of languish comment (a very low bar).  15 minutes of fame is too much.

Renoir or the protestor? :unsure:
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Tonitrus

#23
November 10, 2015, 10:09:23 PM
Renoir was the Thomas Kinkade of the 19th century.

Richard Hakluyt

#24
November 11, 2015, 02:59:19 AM
I wonder how many Renoir works there are?

65 seems a lot, is Chicago a compulsory visit for anyone interested in Renoir's work?

garbon

#25
November 11, 2015, 03:24:42 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on November 11, 2015, 02:59:19 AM
I wonder how many Renoir works there are?

65 seems a lot, is Chicago a compulsory visit for anyone interested in Renoir's work?


According to the BBC there are like 50 spread across the UK in various museums (National Gallery claims 12).

Just looked at Art Institute in Chicago. Most of their 65 appear to be prints and/or etchings.
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#26
November 12, 2015, 03:53:43 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on November 11, 2015, 02:59:19 AM
I wonder how many Renoir works there are?

65 seems a lot, is Chicago a compulsory visit for anyone interested in Renoir's work?

You can view the collection here  (Check out the painting of future filmmaker Jean Renoir sewing.)

Like Garbon said, they're mostly drawings or etching, and wouldn't be on display at all times.  There are some outstanding works, in my opinion The Rowers Lunch and Two Sisters are among his best.

The Art Institute of Chicago has an excellent collection of impressionism, most notably Seurat's Un Dimanche Après-Midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte.
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dps

#27
November 12, 2015, 07:13:03 PM
Not a fan of impressionism in general, and among the impressionists, Renoir isn't my favorite.  Article is just silly, though.
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