Peirre-Auguste Renoir was born on the 25th of February 1841 and passed away on the 3rd of December 1919. He was a French Impressionist painter. Via Wikipedia: Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement begun by a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France.They constructed their pictures from freely brushed colours that took precedence over lines and contours, following the example of painters such as Eugène Delacroix and J. M. W. Turner. They also painted realistic scenes of modern life, and often painted outdoors. Previously,still lifes and portraits as well as landscapes were usually painted in a studio.[1] The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting en plein air. They portrayed overall visual effects instead of details, and used short “broken” brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colour—not blended smoothly or shaded, as was customary—to achieve an effect of intense colour vibration.About Apples in a Dish via The Clark website:Ripe red and green apples fill a large bowl, its brilliant blue color and white edges serving as the focus of the composition. While most of the fruit is fresh and ready to eat, the apple in the foreground shows unmistakable signs of decay, a detail uncharacteristic of the artist. This was the last painting by Renoir acquired by the Clarks, just four years before they opened their museum in Williamstown.Medium: oil on canvasDate:1893
Size: 21 5/16 x 25 11/16 in. (54.1 x 65.3 cm) Frame: 32 5/8 x 36 3/4 in. (82.9 x 93.3 cm)View: On view at The Clark in Williamstown, Massachusetts
