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Title:

Renoir : intimacy Guillermo Solana ; with texts by Colin B. Bailey, Flavie Durand-Ruel Mouraux ; translator, Jenny Dodman.

Author:

Solana, Guillermo.

Bailey, Colin B.

Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

ISBN:

9788415113881

Personal Author:

Solana, Guillermo.

Publication Information:

Madrid Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza 2017.

Physical Description:

197 pages : illustrations (mostly colour), portraits ; 28 cm.

Content Type:

still image

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

General Note:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, October 18, 2016 - January 22, 2017 and Museo de Bellas Artes de Bildao, February 7, 2017 - May 15, 2017. Issued also in Spanish with title: Renoir : intimidad. Spanish bound ed. also avail. (see our card no. 3165067, EAN 9788415113874); Spanish paperback ed. also avail. (see our card no. 3165070, EAN 9788415113867). Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Renoir : intimacy / Guillermo Solana -- Themes and variations : Renoir's sensuality / Colin B. Bailey -- Renoir and Durand-Ruel / Flavie Durand-Ruel Mouraux -- Catalogue -- Renoir : a biography / Paula Luengo.

Abstract:

"The filmmaker Jean Renoir described how his father 'looked at flowers, women and clouds in the sky as other men touch and caress.' In contrast to the habitual conception of Impressionism, which reduces it to "the purely visual", this book, as the exhibition it accompanies, singles out the central role of tactile sensations in Pierre-Auguste Renoir's canvases, which are evident in all the different phases of his career and which he expressed in a wide range of genres, including group scenes, portraits and nudes, as well as still lifes and landscapes. This publication comprising more than 70 works by the artist, from museums and collections world-wide, reveals the way Renoir made use of the tactile qualities of volume, material and textures as a vehicle to depict intimacy in its different forms (social intimacy, among friends and family, or erotic) and how that imagery connects the work and the viewer to the sensuality of the brushstroke and the pictorial surface"-- Publisher's website.

Personal Subject:

Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919-Exhibitions.

Added Author:

Bailey, Colin B.

Added Corporate Author:

Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Format:

Regular print

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Summary

The filmmaker Jean Renoir, son of Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, described how his father "looked at flowers, women and clouds in the sky as other men touch and caress." Impressionism is generally conceived of as purely visual, an optical exploration of light dappled surfaces and shifting colours. Renoir: Intimacy instead focuses on the central role of tactile sensations in Renoir's canvases. In all the different phases of his long career, working in a variety of genres (including group scenes, portraits, nudes, still life's and landscapes), Renoir powerfully evoked the sense of touch. Renoir: Intimacy reveals the ways Renoir made use of the tactile qualities of volume, material and texture as a vehicle to depict intimacy in its different forms-from social intimacy among family and friends, to the erotic-and how that imagery is viscerally connected to the sensuality of the artist's brushstroke and the physical surfaces of his paintings. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Museo de arte Thyssen- Bornemisza in Madrid, this gorgeous volume includes more than 70 works by the artist, loaned from museums and private collections worldwide.

Author Notes

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a founder of the style that became known as Impressionism, and one of its most prolific members. Described by Herbert Read as "the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau," Renoir was a connoisseur and champion of feminine beauty. Surviving most of his contemporaries, Renoir lived to see his paintings hung at the Louvre alongside the old masters he so revered.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

In this exhibition catalog, curators Guillermo Solana (Thyssen-Bornemisza -Museum, Spain) and Colin Bailey (Morgan Library & Museum, NY) focus on one particular aspect of his work, which they refer to as intimacy, the very personal response of the artist to his subject. Renoir used his brush to emphasize the sense of touch, the sensual caress of the layers of paint upon the canvas. Regardless of the type of painting, family scenes, portraits, or nudes, the connection between artist and subject was always a visceral, tactile one. The exhibition includes works from around the world as well as those in the curators' own institutions and offers convincing evidence of this use of texture and volume to connect the painter with the surface of the canvas as well as the subject. For Renoir, to paint was to touch, to caress the surface with the strokes of his brush in his lifelong passion for the personal and intimate. -VERDICT Familiar paintings take on a new aura in this volume and may be of interest to those who appreciate the work of Renoir.-Paula Frosch, -Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.