Title: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
First published: 1997
Description: John House examines the many facets of the work and what it reveals about Renoir as a man and artist. He asks, "What did it mean to paint a picture like La Promenade in France in 1870, in the final months of Napoleon III's Second Empire?" The reader is invited to look at the canvas - and Impressionism - as a rejection of the idealist world of academic art and as a challenge to contemporary social norms.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Impressionism (Art), J. Paul Getty Museum, Renoir, auguste, 1841-1919, Critique et interprétation, Impressionnisme (Art), La promenade (Renoir)
Places: France
People: Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
LC classification: ND553.R45 A73 1997