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Delacroix, whom Renoir called the greatest artist of the French school, died in 1863 after having fought for a lifetime against the flawless but colorless classicism upheld by his great contemporary, Ingres. His three most important mural jobs, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Church of St. Sulpice and the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, are among the few French masterpieces in this medium. With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery...
...Lower Depths in 1902 to show the disease, despair and degradation of human beings at the bottom of Russia's Tsarist pile. Gorki's pre-Soviet cellarful of morbid, introspective thieves, drunkards and derelicts has been brought to the screen by France's Director Jean Renoir (Madame Bovary, Toni), son of the impressionist painter. In a foreword he announces his film as "human" rather than specifically Russian drama. For realistic squalor and decay Renoir copied the 1936 slums of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Paris suburb...
Because the paintings of Pierre Auguste Renoir are not only great but pretty, as he once said paintings should be, few years go by without a new Renoir exhibition in Paris or the U. S. In 1933 the Chicago Art Institute included a fine roomful of Renoirs in its Century of Progress loan exhibition, and two years ago the Durand-Ruel Galleries showed 30 choice canvases in Manhattan (TIME, March 25, 1935). Last week the most comprehensive U. S. exhibition of Renoir since the painter's death in 1919 drew hundreds of Manhattanites to the Metropolitan Museum...
...probably a good thing for Renoir that before he was 18 he spent several years painting china for a Paris firm. A strong sense of how well clear colors looked on a light ground kept his later painting from dissolving into the atmospheric ultimates of the Impressionists, though he became as sensitive as any of them to the color effects of sunlight. When Painting china kept his color from dissolving. Renoir painted the summer gaiety of his friends he filled his canvas with flowing light and color, composed contented, decorous figures moving softly, if at all. Three of his best...
Hung on opposite walls are masterpieces of the painter's early and middle styles: Lady at the Piano, painted in 1879, an example of the purest Renoir radiance, and Mine Renoir Nursing Pierre, in which the artist used flat, dry colors and a linear definition of forms very different from the technique by which he is commonly known. The same room contains a bronze relief, done in 1914, of a painting. The Judgment of Paris, done in 1908 and now the property of Actor Charles Laughton. Racked by arthritis during the last 20 years of his life, Renoir...