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Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, France in 1841 and as a child worked in a factory painting designs on china. At the age of 17 he was copying paintings onto fans and lamp shades. In 1862 Renoir was formally educated at the academy of the painter Charles Gabriel Gleyre in Paris, and his early works took notable inspiration from French artists Eugene Delacroix, and Claude Monet.
Pierre Auguste Renoir is well known for his intimate paintings, especially those of nude females. He is recognized as one of the greates and most independent painters of his time. Renoir is noted for his use of brilliant colors, his variety of subjects, his intimacy, and his harmony of lines. He was one of the few Impressionist painters that found an equal interst in both the human figure and landscapes. Renoir's first exhibiton was in Paris in 1864 but he was not recognized for his works until 10 years later. Some of Renoir's most famous works include Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette, and Madame Charpentier and Her Children - these works demonstrate Renoir's mastery of the human form and the depiction of light. After Renoir had achieved a solid reputation he exhibited in Paris in 1883. In 1887 he created a series of nude female figures he named The Bathers, which reveal his skillful ability to convey texture and skin color. This series of paintings is so far unsurpassed in modern art because of their excellent representation of feminine grace. Renoir was crippled with arthiritis in the last twenty years of his life but he continued to paint with his brush strapped to his arm. Renoir died in Cagnes in 1919.
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