Renoir
Subtitle: intimacy
By: Guillermo Solana ; with texts by Colin B. Bailey, Flavie Durand-Ruel Mouraux ; translator, Jenny Dodman
Contributors: Solana, Guillermo, author, editor; Bailey, Colin B., author; Durand-Ruel, Flavie, author; Dodman, Jenny, translator; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9788415113898; 9788415113881
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: "The filmmaker Jean Renoir described how his father 'looked at flowers, women and clouds in the sky as other men touch and caress.' In contrast to the habitual conception of Impressionism, which reduces it to "the purely visual", this book, as the exhibition it accompanies, singles out the central role of tactile sensations in Pierre-Auguste Renoir's canvases, which are evident in all the different phases of his career and which he expressed in a wide range of genres, including grortraits and nudes, as well as still lifes and landscapes. This publication comprising more than 70 works by the artist, from museums and collections world-wide, reveals the way Renoir made use of the tactile qualities of volume, material and textures as a vehicle to depict intimacy in its different forms (social intimacy, among friends and family, or erotic) and how that imagery connects the work and the viewer to the sensuality of the brushstroke and the pictorial surface"--
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, October 18, 2016 - January 22, 2017 and Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, February 7, 2017 - May 15, 2017.

Issued also in Spanish with title: Renoir : intimidad.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Renoir :; title: intimacy  -- Guillermo Solana; title: Themes and variations :; title: Renoir's sensuality  -- Colin B. Bailey; title: Renoir and Durand-Ruel  -- Flavie Durand-Ruel Mouraux -- Catalogue; title: Renoir :; title: a biography -- Paula Luengo.