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Renoir Pierre-Auguste (Limoges, 1841 - Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1919) Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French painter. He attended courses at the Ecole de Dessi net des Arts Dècoratifs and studied self-taught painting, forming his pictorial taste on artists such as Rubens and the French eighteenth century. Read the full biography

Pierre Auguste Renoir Biography

Renoir Pierre-Auguste (Limoges, 1841 - Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1919) Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French painter. He attended courses at the Ecole de Dessi net des Arts Dècoratifs and studied self-taught painting, forming his pictorial taste on artists such as Rubens and the French eighteenth century. He also attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts and followed the courses of Emile Signal and Charles Gleyre, where he met Claude Monet, Bazille and Sisley. This group represented the fundamental nucleus of the impressionist movement. In the spring of 1864 the group went to the Fountainbleau forest to paint nature directly, "en plein air" style. It is from here that the new artistic movement was born, called "impressionism", which created quite a stir when their paintings were exhibited in 1874 in an independent salon, which was opposed to the official one. One of the painter's most famous masterpieces is "Le Moulin de la Galette" (1876) and the study of Renaissance painting gave rise to the desire to move away from the style of the Impressionists. Furthermore, the artist began to look at bourgeois life, abolishing the outlines of forms, chiaroscuro and deepening the effects of light. He participated in the IX Venice Biennale (1910), presenting 37 works.