Pierre Auguste Renoir

Pierre Auguste Renoir was a French artist and an important figure in the Impressionist movement. He was famous for creating vivid paintings of nature and of people. He was the father of an actor, a filmmaker and a ceramic artist, as well as being a grandfather to another filmmaker. Needless to say he inspired many people, even within his own bloodline.

This painting is of two women in a boat, and is a bright and cheerful painting. First of all, you see the brown boat against the light blue water, so that makes the boat stand out. You then see the women sitting inside the boat, who are wearing white. The painting is, I think, of a rich life in the olden days. There is a boat in the water being pushed using the oars by two women in the boat. The two women are wearing white, which is a link to the white boat with sails behind them, and the large mansion behind them. If it was a different colour the women would not look as if they belong with the rest of the white environment. The boat is in some sort of river or lake and is not very far to the house. There is nothing complicated about this image and is very simple in telling you what is happening

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The title of this painting is “Luncheon of the Bating Party, and instantly you get a sense of higher-class people in this painting. There are many people in this painting, which gave me a strange effect when I was searching for this image on the internet. When I only glimpsed at it, it reminded me of a hyper-realistic painting, as the two men in the hats at the front of the painting look very realistic. Everyone is doing something in this painting, which makes me like it so much. The girl in the front is playing with the dog in her hands, who looks startled, a realistic experience. The man in the hat on the right looks like he is in the conversation with the girl next to him and the man leaning on their chairs. Everyone is doing something and is talking to someone else, which I think is an incredible amount of detail to be able to put that in a painting. The colours in this painting are very defined and work very well with each other. A lot of things look blurred out, but that is simply the way brush strokes were at the time. It seems everyone in the painting is in a tent, and that there is grass all around them. The tent flapping in the wind is one of the reasons it reminded me of a hyper-realistic painting.