Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Life and History - WriteWork.
Summary of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement's most popular practitioners. He is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure in the last three decades of the 19 th century. Though celebrated as a colorist with a keen eye for capturing the movement of light and shadow.History of Impressionism. Impressionism originated in late 19th century Paris, when artists including Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley formed the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers. The movement served as a reaction to a rapidly changing urban environment.This painting is doubtless Renoir's most important work of the mid 1870's and was shown at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877. Though some of his friends appear in the picture, Renoir's main aim.
