num_pages: 96
description: La belle Impressionism's most joyful paintings 	 		 	 		Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universally 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."				Renoir’s entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women. Again and again he painted "these faunesses with their pouting lips" (Mallarmé) and invented a new image of feminity. 	 		 	 		 About the 		Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series 
language: English
title: Renoir
titlecomplete: Renoir
genres: Art and Photography, History, Reference, Biography, Art History, 20th Century, 19th Century, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 702
publisher: TASCHEN