Smart About Art: Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Paintings That Smile.Smart About Art: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of : Paintings That Smile. True Kelley. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Grosset & Dunlop, 2005. Illus., hardcover, 32 pp., $5.99. Another volume in the Smart About series designed as a student's classroom report. The author's anecdotal text emphasizes this lighthearted light·heart·ed adj. Not being burdened by trouble, worry, or care; happy and carefree. See Synonyms at glad1. light quality among the 6,000 paintings Renoir produced, although the author avoids any mention one of Renior's favorite subjects, female nudes. Double pages include one or two reproductions and some comments about their subject matter or method of creation. To add some comic touches, tiny cartoon figures, often with speech balloons, are added and the young narrator's own comments also are included in the margins. The sum of the parts creates an inviting introduction to a major artist, although the young girl who is making the report to her teacher may prejudice a few boys. This book should motivate readers to seek out more examples of Renoir's works and more information about Impressionism impressionism, in painting impressionism, in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to . --Reviewed by Ken Marantz, professor emeritus of art education at the Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. . |
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