Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir supporters of the Impressionist school, his paintings were full of color and joy a great source of many who came after him, and he was one of those who check their dream to see the paintings in the Louvre.
Born French artist Pierre Auguste Renoir, on 25 February 1841, in the village of Limoges France, and began his artistic career painting on porcelain before studying art, was visiting the Louvre to study the work of artists.
He moved in 1855 to Paris to study painting at the Academy of Arts, and soon became the center of the spotlight and fame, where he became famous in the offing for his paintings of women, and scenes of everyday life, and was a pioneer of the Impressionist school, which lit up the Paris end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth.
Important transition in the life of Renoir began when he met the artist Claude Monet leading Impressionist, where they learned while studying in drawing the ice in 1862, and although it is a success at the beginning of his life, and his first exhibition failed in 1864, but after so many years began to reap the fruits of success and fame; Showing his paintings in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.
Drawing Renoir thousands of paintings characterized by a combination of bright colors expressive, and managed his skills in his paintings of women that the color is subject to express skin and is interested in when you draw objects or scenes with light and the general atmosphere more of his attention by showing natural for these things or landscape features, and it was his life's dream to He sees his paintings enter the Louvre, which was achieved in 1919 in his last visit to the museum, and he saw his work next to paintings of great artists.
He lived Renoir's life did not come to him wealth and fame, but in the last years of his life, the days of his youth in loitering in the neighborhood of artists, even when it has been crippled by arthritis in his last years did not stop filming, and link colors brush in his fingers and was painted over a wheelchair, He died in 1919 at the age of 78 years.
Some of his works
The Theater Box, 1874.
The Swing (La Balançoire), 1876, oil on canvas.
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette), 1876.
Two Sisters, oil on canvas, 1881.
Girls at the Piano, 1892.
