GENERAL DESCRIPTION
By using clean outlines and minimal shading, Pierre-Auguste Renoir depicts his figure simply and clearly. The woman is similar to classical sculpture of ancient Greece, with the drapery over her lap and averted eyes; however, she is much larger than the ancient ideal, or the contemporary ideal for that matter. The lack of specificity of the image—a nondescript landscape, a nude figure—contrasts with the solidity and full-bodied flesh of a real woman.
Excerpt from
Heather MacDonald, DMA label copy, 2008.
NOTES
Created 1880-81
Checked Piction.
Representing the more Bohemian world of artists like the Impressionists, is the large study of a nude by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Like landcapes and portraits, nude figures represent another sort of imagery which the Impressionists treated differently from academic artists. Here there is no carefully modelled form, no glacial marble sheen suggesting antique sculpture, but rather the glowing warmth of an actual young woman, full-blooded, breathless, intimate. In its own way, this masterly drawing is as opulently sensuous, as representative of a new society as the gilt and lacquered papier mache furniture. Private vision replaces public art; the real world seems as mythically beautiful as Greek antiquity.
Pulled from
Anne Bromberg, "Looking at Art: France in the 19th Century," DMA Bulletin Summer 1986, 11-13
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- The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown~View Renoir's Blonde Bather by Renoir which was created around the same time as this drawing.
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General Description
By using clean outlines and minimal shading, Pierre-Auguste Renoir depicts his figure simply and clearly. The woman is similar to classical sculpture of ancient Greece, with the drapery over her lap and averted eyes; however, she is much larger than the ancient ideal, or the contemporary ideal for that matter. The lack of specificity of the image—a nondescript landscape, a nude figure—contrasts with the solidity and full-bodied flesh of a real woman.
Excerpt from
Heather MacDonald, DMA label copy, 2008.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown~View Renoir's Blonde Bather by Renoir which was created around the same time as this drawing.
Notes
Created 1880-81
Checked Piction.
Representing the more Bohemian world of artists like the Impressionists, is the large study of a nude by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Like landcapes and portraits, nude figures represent another sort of imagery which the Impressionists treated differently from academic artists. Here there is no carefully modelled form, no glacial marble sheen suggesting antique sculpture, but rather the glowing warmth of an actual young woman, full-blooded, breathless, intimate. In its own way, this masterly drawing is as opulently sensuous, as representative of a new society as the gilt and lacquered papier mache furniture. Private vision replaces public art; the real world seems as mythically beautiful as Greek antiquity.
Pulled from
Anne Bromberg, "Looking at Art: France in the 19th Century," DMA Bulletin Summer 1986, 11-13
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Artist/designers
Cultures
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