Renoir’s Impressionism, Celebrating Beauty and Joy

We can enjoy Renoir’s work because of light and color’s essential interaction. The use of complementary colors and his ability to present intense luminosity promote brightness and vibrant glow effects in his painting.

You may be interested if I mention Susan Valadon also in this article. She was a French post-impressionist painter, worked as a model in Renoir’s atelier. Susan studied Renoir’s work techniques and became later the first woman painter in the history of Beaux-Arts, the French National Society of Fine Arts.

After travelling to Italy, Renoir doubted his previous works and was impressed by Titan and Raphael’s masterpieces. This journey had an intense impact on him and changed his path back to the classic style. He acknowledged that it was a mistake to remove black, which offers excellent effects to the painting. However, after more enlightenments in his artistic experience, he returned once again to Impressionism with a new independent vision. He continued his work again with determination and tremendous vitality, using less classical sketches and more impressionistic brushing strokes.

In his later years, he became ill and suffered from arthritis. He was forced to move to villages close to the Mediterranean coast and live in a warmer climate. Because of his limited condition, his painting’s techniques changed forced.

In the last years of his life, Renoir couldn’t work without the help of his assistant, Richard Guino, who acted as Renoir’s hand. However, Renoir was a wealthy artist with no financial worries. He regularly sold his works, and those sales gave him great confidence to continue his innovations and productivity. He never stopped thinking and producing beauty.

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Text: Lalerou
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