Western Art Exhibition Critique

Jean , in 1979

Subject matter of his final years were nudes , girls at a piano children with their nannies - turning his back on his Impressionism style he had been so involved with earlier in his life . The light brush strokes disappeared , with Renoir returning to the style of the old masters such as Rubens . With hands appearing as old tree stumps , he had mastered the use of color and brush strokes toward his final years To paint , he wrapped fabric around his gnarled fingers while clamping a paintbrush between the thumb and

first of his right hand , appearing gaunt and emaciated . But he still painted for hours because if he quit the pain may actually destroy him

The art display "Renoir in the 20th Century " Los Angeles County Museum of Art demonstrates how far Renoir had come artistically toward the end of his life . Instead of "Bad Renoir art " in his later years , it was the best he had ever done with a glowing to his skin tone other artists could not compete with . Becoming more and more of an art master who was dedicated to his work helped him overcome his physical pain . Through this , he worked to re-develop and refine the traditional forms and methods into an exquisite art form he had always . Nowhere is this success more apparent than in the art exhibit of Renoir and his friends

Notes

Honour , Hugh , and John Fleming . Impressionism and Post-Impressionism The Visual Arts : A History . 524 . Englewood Cliffs : Prentice-Hall , Inc 1982

Knight , Christopher (2010 . Culture Monster . Los Angeles Times Retrieved 1 May 2010 http /latimesblogs .latimes .com /culturemonster /2010 /02 /renoir-lacma .htmlLACMA : Renoir in the 20th Century . Los Angeles , 2010

Nationales , Gran Palais Galeries . Renoir in the 20th Century 2009-2010 . http /www .rmn .fr /Renoir-in-the-20th-Century (accessed May 1 2010

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