"Bather Arranging Her Hair"
"The Skiff"
"Picking Flowers"It's the birthday of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born in Limoges, France (1841).
When he was 13, he was apprenticed to a porcelain painter, and he saved money to take night classes in drawing and anatomy. One of his classmates was Claude Monet. Renoir and Monet and their friends wanted to reject tradition and to paint light and to paint from life instead of sketching everything out first in a studio. These ideas became known as Impressionism.
Renoir used the techniques of Impressionism, but while most of his friends painted landscapes, he painted people.
-from The Writer's Almanac-
When he was 13, he was apprenticed to a porcelain painter, and he saved money to take night classes in drawing and anatomy. One of his classmates was Claude Monet. Renoir and Monet and their friends wanted to reject tradition and to paint light and to paint from life instead of sketching everything out first in a studio. These ideas became known as Impressionism.
Renoir used the techniques of Impressionism, but while most of his friends painted landscapes, he painted people.
-from The Writer's Almanac-
4 comments:
y'all are going to get me in hot water, speaking of bathing, with these nudie pictures. First Matt-man and now Phfrankie. People sneak up behind me at work and think I'm all like looking at porn and stuff, ha! I like the skiff painting best I think. Remember our discussion on the word skiff? What actually constitutes a skiff when used as a unit of measure?
she has a bikini line..oh my!
never met a Renoir I didn't like.
A true genius IMHO
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