Renoir's Nudes (Universe of Art)
Publisher: Universe
Published: September 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780789300621
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists; Individual Painters - 19th Century; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Renoir, Auguste; History - General; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist; 1841-1919; Criticism and interpretation; Renoir, Auguste,
Description: Auguste Renoir, quite understandably, is the most popular and easily understood painter of the Impressionist period. Even in his arthritic old age, Renoir never ceased to find inspiration in the female body, happily placing himself in the opulent tradition of Titian, Rubens, and Courbet, whose work he studied and raised to a new power.

Renoir favored and sought a particular physical type, characterized by round, heart-shaped faces, snub noses, narrow, almond-shaped eyes, blushing cheeks, and wide, rose-colored mouths. Among his preferred models were Aline Charigot, Nini, Gabrielle Renard, a cousin of his wife, and Lise Trehot.

Even when working from the model in his studio, Renoir portrayed the nubile subjects in dappled landscapes, some of the scenes inspired by antiquity and mythology, others taken from the green pastures of northern France or the Mediterranean lushness of the South, where he built a house at Cagnes in 1907. Here are all of Renoir's most gorgeous nudes, gentle beauty flowering in tropical nature where modesty is as unknown as vice, and satisfaction acknowledges no bounds.