Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michelangelo, Murillo, Tintoretto, Greuze, Utrillo, Renoir, Fragonard, Matisse, And the Brueghels, pére et fils, Monet, Manet, Turner, Giotto, Dufy, Degas, Titian, Watteau, From Da Vinci to The Greek Each one had his own technique. Artzy's trademark is his flair For the isolated hair...
...feet with his brush. Bonnard did murals for her salon. Picasso made her godmother to his first child. Proust called her beautiful. Maillol asked her to pose for sculpture. "In you the image of immortality seems achieved," he wrote her. "There is nothing left but to copy it." Renoir painted seven portraits of her, often pleaded that she open her dress more. "Lower, lower," he begged. "Why, in heaven's name, don't you let me see your breasts? It is truly...
...illustrated by the retrospective portfolio of photographs (see pp. 59-66). Of the twelve shown, at least half are contrived rather than documentary. Tana Hoban used a professional model for her sun-splashed shot of a little girl. Its lighting is reminiscent of the impressionistic paintings of Renoir et al., and its atmosphere is that of a powder puff. Aaron Siskind's closeup of peeling paint is not supposed to look like paint alone; it is a faintly sinister pattern reminiscent of easel pictures by the German surrealist Max Ernst. Arnold Newman's portrait of Igor Stravinsky...
...RENOIR'S "VENUS VICTORIEUSE" HAS FINALLY COME OVER THE MOUNTAINS. SALE OF THE REJECTED MAIDEN HAS BEEN COMPLETED. I FOR ONE AM MOST HAPPY THAT THE OLD GIRL HAS FOUND SOMEONE WHO LOVES...
...know? His works have appeared most often in TIME'S "Public Favorites" series. And when readers write us to comment on TIME'S news of art and to ask where they can buy reproductions of paintings, the name they mention most frequently is that of Pierre Auguste Renoir...