Word: renoirs
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...RENOIR, MY FATHER (458 pp.]-Jean Renoir-Little, Brown...
...biography in years has been as warm and likable as this recollection of the great impressionist painter Renoir by his son Jean. The younger Renoir posed for his father constantly as a child; now, turned portraitist, he has done a remarkable job of sketching a gentle genius. Pierre-Auguste Renoir is lucky in his biographer; his son, a playwright and film director (The River) shows none of the radiation damage that sons of geniuses sometimes display...
Without Thunder. In his son's recounting, Renoir was the sanest and sunniest of men. His biography is a powerful antidote for the notion-acquired, perhaps, from reading biographies of Van Gogh and Gauguin-that art must spring from anguish. Not that Renoir had an easy time; at the beginning of his career his paintings were ridiculed along with those of other impressionists, and at the end of it he was twisted by a rheumatic paralysis that made each brush stroke an effort of will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore...
Something More. Renoir adored women, as is evident from the multitude of round, rosy nudes he painted. It is no surprise to learn that his household was full of them. He put aside his broad palette of art student's love affairs when he married, but his relations with the maids, nurses and models who crowded the house, as his son observes, were always "on the point of turning into something more romantic...
While his men move earth and change skylines in city after city, Cotton lives the country squire's life on his Buckinghamshire estate on the Thames, gardening and admiring his art collection (Rembrandt, Renoir), in a manner appropriate for a man of property...