Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841 - 1919
Self portrait (1910)
Born: 25 February 1841, Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France
Died: 3 December 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Renoir was apprenticed to a porcelain factory at thirteen where he painted floral designs on plates, then worked painting cloth panels of religious scenes used by missionaries in their churches, normally spending his lunch hour at the Louvre. In 1862 he started evening courses at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied with Charles Gleyre in his studio. Three new students arrived at the studio a few months later: Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, and Frédéric Bazille. The four started working in a new direction and often met with Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, forming the group which mounted the original Impressionist exposition in 1874. By 1890 he had moved somewhat toward Classicism from the core of Impressionism, reintroducing black and focusing more on line. About 1892 he began suffering from rheumatoid arthritis which made it painful paint, moving to the south of France apparently helped. He persisted in pain, although there is no basis for the idea that his brushes were strapped to his hand; he could hold but no pick them up. He also directed the work of a young sculptor, Richard Guino, to create his last sculptures. He was taken to the Louvre one last time after the state had acquired and hung his Portrait of Mme Georges Charpentier there, friends wheeled him past the works of the masters he had spent his lunchtime to study six decades before, he died at home a few months later.
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- A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of "impressionism", and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you being a genius. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - God, the king of artists, was clumsy. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - I feel sorry for men who are always running after women. What a job! On duty day and night: not a minute's respite. I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable.... But I don't seem to have a single real friend! permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - I have no rules and no methods ... no secrets. permalink
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it. permalink
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