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https://www.wikiart.org/en/pierre-auguste-renoir/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir

For the month of April I read one of my local libraries art books about Pierre Auguste Renoir. To be honest his artwork - paintings throughout the book as well as descriptions of such paintings caught my attention more than the first half of the book about his life. His art is stunning and so realistic I felt like I was looking at paintings. Again, he's another artist I haven't heard of before. So this was a nice treat to learn of him and see his paintings. HIs work felt familiar but I'm not sure why, maybe it's similar to other art I have seen over the years at different art museums.

Pierre Auguste Renoir was born February 25th 1841. He lived to be 78, passing away in 1919. Which I feel was pretty good for those times. He practiced in impressionism. A-lot of his art has beautiful woman and children in them. Truly some lifelike works. With his art he uses a fine range of colors in some paintings and others he uses few - which I think takes a certain amount of talent and skill. I find it interesting that a few of his children grew up to be well known film makers and in related films. And in later years his grandson became a famous artist.

Have any of you heard of Pierre Auguste Renoir?
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https://www.wikiart.org/en/raoul-dufy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Dufy

I've been checking out more and more books around my local library and found some beautiful art books that haven't been checked out in quite a long time. And some of them are about artists I've never heard of. When I was a kid/teen in school I didn't care much for learning about artists and felt like they always covered the same ones year after year. So one of my personal goals is to read one of these books a month and learn about a new artist. There are at least a dozen! I have a list as a bookmark I will be checking off as I read them!

The fist book is about Raoul Dufy, a French painter who was a part of the fauvist movement. He was born June 3rd 1877. His paintings are colorful and so far (I'm about halfway done with the book) I love his use of shapes and textures. He lived to be 75. Raoul was involved with drawings, paintings, printmaking, furniture design as well as book illustrations. From what I read he had some good contacts in the art field. From reading about his paintings and his life it's been refreshing. The book has some beautiful color prints of his art, in full detail.
From the art museums I've been to I don't recall seeing his art. But I've been to quite a few over the years. I will try to keep an eye out for his works now that I am more familiar with them.

Do any of you know of this artist?

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