Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir


Born
Limoges, Haute-Vienne , France
Genre
Art

Influences
Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Rafael Santi


Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

Pierre-Auguste was the father of the actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), the filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and the ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969).

He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre.

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La alegría de pintar

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Peindre le paradis: Ou la b...

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Renoir Art Institute of Chi...

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Lettere e scritti teorici

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Ōgyusuto runowāru

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Pierre Auguste Renoir: A Ga...

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“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
Pierre Auguste Renoir

“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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