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Renoir, impressionism, and full-length painting
\"Throughout his long working life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) produced large-format portraits and subject pictures. From the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s--the decade of Impressionism--his vertical, grand-scale canvases were among the artist's most daring and ambitious presentations of contemporary life and fashion. Today they rank among the masterpieces of Impressionism. This stunning book offers fresh insights into Renoir's complex ambitions as a young artist, when he submitted works to both the avant-garde impressionist exhibitions and the official Salon. While painting in the new impressionist style, Renoir remained committed to the full-length format, which was eschewed by most of his fellow impressionists as too traditional. This format afforded Renoir the opportunity to devote himself to the heroic painting of everyday life, and also to linger on the finest details of his figures' fashionable costumes and accessories. Ten iconic canvases display the rich variety of this artist's painterly technique. They reveal the sheer virtuosity of his brushwork in creating silk, lace, mink, and taffeta for shimmering ball gowns, sumptuous furs, chic Parisian day dresses, and glamorous theatrical costumes. These paintings capture the faces and fashions of Renoir's Paris.Extensively illustrated, the book draws upon contemporary criticism, literature, and archival documents to explore the motivation behind Renoir's full-length figure paintings, and technical studies of the canvases shed new light on the artist's working methods\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Recent acquisitions (2005–14) at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
This article presents recent acquisitions at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco (the de Yong and the Legion of Honor), covering the period 2005-14. The acquisitions include works in a range of media by the French artists Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850-1924) and Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940); the French designer Yves Saint-Laurent (1936-2008); the American artists Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), Larry Rivers (1923-2002), Burgoyne Diller (1906-1965), Frank Stella (b.1936), Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), and Willem de Kooning (1904-1997); and the American photographers Ansel Adams (1902-1984) and Diane Arbus (1923-1971).
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The Brontèes : a family writes
The Brontes of Haworth were a prodigiously imaginative literary family. From the earliest manuscripts of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne - written with a quill pen in a minuscule hand designed to mimic the printed page - to explosive novels, such as 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre', written in adulthood by Emily and Charlotte, the family's writings continue to fascinate. This elegantly designed, fully illustrated publication provides an intimate portrait of a singular family of writers through the manuscripts, rare printed books, personal documents, and private letters preserved in the Bronte collection of the Morgan Library & Museum, one of the world's finest. It accompanies a major exhibition at the Morgan from 9 September 2016 to 2 January 2017. Exhibition: Morgan Library & Museum, NYC, USA (09.09.2016-02.01.2017).
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'In the same order, but . . . stronger than ever': the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia
The Barnes Foundation opened a new location in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May 2012 following years of controversy and litigation. Albert Coombs Barnes began assembling his collection in 1912 and established the foundation in 1922 with the goal of promoting art education and appreciation. Its initial building was designed by Paul Cret. A 2005-2007 analysis showed that the collection needed four times more space. A new location was created by Williams and Tsien.
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Renoir : the body, the senses
Best known as part of the influential vanguard of Impressionist artists that experimented with new painting techniques in the late 19th century, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was deeply inspired by classical traditions and returned again and again to the canonical subject of the nude. Tracing the entire arc of Renoir's career, this volume examines the different approaches the artist employed in his various depictions of the subject-from his works that respond to Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cezanne, to his late, and still controversial, depictions of bathers that inspired the next generation of artists. Eminent scholars not only look at the different ways that Renoir used the nude as a means of personal expression but also analyze Renoir's art in terms of a modern feminist critique of the male gaze. Offering the first-ever comprehensive investigation of Renoir's nudes, this beautifully illustrated study includes approximately 50 works, including paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures. The book also features an interview with the contemporary figurative painter Lisa Yuskavage that considers Renoir's continuing influence and the historical significance of the female nude in art. Exhibition: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA (08.06-22.09.2018); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, USA (27.10.2019-26.01.2020).
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The Origins of the Barnes Collection, 1912—15
The author examines the American art collector Albert C. Barnes' collecting in the years 1912-1915, with a view to establishing how the works of four major artists - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse - came to form the pillars of the Barnes collection. He traces the influence on Barnes' thinking and taste of the artists William Glackens (1870-1938), Alfred Maurer (1868-1932), and of the writings of the art critic Julius Meier-Graefe (1867-1935), and goes on to argue that the overwhelming influence on Barnes was the art collector Leo Stein (1872-1947), brother and close associate of the writer Gertrude Stein. With reference to their correspondence, the author suggests that Stein's championing of Renoir, Cézanne, and the early work of Picasso and Matisse, his powerfully expressed pronouncements on aesthetics and psychology, strong opinions, and complex formulations challenged Barnes in a way no other figure could until Barnes fell under the influence of the philosopher John Dewey in 1917. (Quotes from original text)
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Books : \Fragonard and the fantasy figure : painting the imagination,\ by Melissa Percival
The book \"Fragonard and the fantasy figure : painting the imagination, \"by Melissa Percival is reviewed (Ashgate Publishing, 2012). It examines his painting and portrait technique.
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