One of the most famous French impressionists Auguste Renoir was born in the provincial city of Limoges on February 25, 1841. Four years later, his family moved to. Poverty forced early years earn money for a living. And since Renoir discovered his ability to draw, he found a corresponding job: hand painted porcelain cups. Then, due to the introduction of mechanization, he lost this job. Then he got a job in a workshop that made curtains painted with scenes biblical stories. These curtains were intended for missionaries working in Africa. Having saved up money, Renoir decided to study in the studio of the artist Gleyre. There he met Basil, Monet and Sisley. They were united by a common desire to look for new approaches to image forms, style, and composition.
The birth of a painter
Renoir and Monet fell in love with working in open spaces. Every day they painted small paintings-sketches of things they saw on the streets and places of rest of people. In the suburbs of Paris on the Seine there was a place called “The Paddling Pool” - these were public baths with a restaurant. There were always a lot of people there and reigned celebration atmosphere. Renoir’s painting “Swimming on the Seine” just shows one of the scenes of a summer holiday on the water: sun glare on the surface of the river, bright clothes of Parisians, green crowns of trees - everything breathes revival, joy and living harmony. Being a gifted person in all respects, Renoir could have become a talented commander (during the Franco-Prussian War he was predicted to have a serious military career), could become a singer (his music teachers also predicted this to him). But he chose painting. He entered into an alliance with her on a great and mutual love. Therefore, it is his paintings that radiate a special warmth and joy of life throughout the entire community of impressionists. 70s: samples in the nude genre. Working with nudes is necessary for every artist. In the 70s, Renoir also painted the nude body. In past centuries, artists depicted the nude model in a mythological or historical flavor. Nudity then indicated the convention of the plot. The naked body was painted impersonally, without a shadow of individual perception, simply conveying impeccable forms. Renoir crosses the line of these canons. His “Nude” combines the genres of nude and portrait. A dark-haired young woman with an attractive face in which her character and mood can be read, she is calm and confident. Her figure is not even perfect, she is a little heavy, but at the same time beautiful. Renoir handed her mature feminine beauty, her rounded forms with such love and warmth that the viewer involuntarily conveys the feeling of a living, quivering body.
New in the portrait genre
Renoir was always in search of perfection. The end of the seventies was marked in his art by the combination of different genres of painting. Thanks to his cheerful character, Renoir painted joyful, happy faces of friends and their girlfriends against the backdrop of green parks, in the rays of the sun, combining two genres together - portrait and landscape. This is Renoir’s painting “The Swing” (1876): a sweet, flirtatious face, fluffy curls, bows, pink clothes of a girl and a landscape full of sunlight and green trees. “Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary” (1877) – perhaps the most famous painting Renoir. True, there is no landscape on it, but there is a very warm background, either orange or light coral, and the living, sincere face of a red-haired beast with slightly disheveled hair and the strap of a weightless dress that has slipped off her shoulder. Renoir, unlike other impressionists, loved life in its small, sweet manifestations.
He painted scenes of casual conversation, light flirting, people sitting with a book, with flowers, with a glass of wine on the grass by the water or in a green gazebo. And the presence of children, kittens, and puppies on his canvases emphasizes the feeling of deep tenderness and joy that the author felt for his heroes and their kind, bright world. It seems he basically doesn't want to notice dark sides life. 80s. Marriage. On big picture“The Boatmen's Breakfast” (1881) Renoir did not change his joyful sense of existence. He depicts people in an atmosphere of friendly, cheerful communication. To their left is a young girl playing with a dog sitting right on the table. This girl - Alina Sharigo - after some time became Renoir's wife.
The artist was recognized by connoisseurs of painting. His cheerful paintings brought him fame: landscapes with genre scenes, portraits against a landscape background, or simply portraits of beautiful and happy people. On the slope of life. Until old age, Renoir did not change his attitude towards life and his art. His fruitful and tireless work even in his declining years is evidenced by his numerous paintings of nudes, for which the models were maids from his house. This is perceived as a hymn to life and youth that was sung great artist till the last breath. Auguste Renoir died in 1919.
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French artist Pierre Auguste Renoir entered the history of world painting not only as the founder of impressionism, but also the singer of the harmony of a world filled with sunlight, the riot of nature, the smiles of women, the sense of the value of life. His paintings are imbued with the joy of life, a feeling of happiness. As the artist himself said: “For me, a painting... should always be pleasant, joyful and beautiful, yes – beautiful! There are enough boring things in life, let’s not create new ones.” On February 25, on the 173rd anniversary of the painter’s birth, I propose to consider 10 of his masterpieces.
Renoir's first real masterpiece was "Lisa with an Umbrella" (1867). 
The young painter is only 26 years old. This painting depicts Auguste's friend, whom he had known since he was 24 years old. Lisa Treo was six years younger than Renoir. The girl charmed the artist with her spontaneity, freshness and mysterious expression in her eyes: either a nymph or a mermaid. The attractive image of a girl in a white dress contrasts with the changing background of the picture. The play of light and shadow allows us to better understand both the artist’s emotions and the mood of his sitter. Lisa thoughtfully bowed her head under an openwork umbrella, protecting herself from the sunlight, or maybe the girl does not want to openly show her feelings to the painter. It is known from history that Lisa Treo and Pierre Auguste Renoir had a romantic relationship, but the artist refused to marry her. For Renoir there was one passion - art. Critics noted innovations in portrait technique: before this, no one had painted the Frenchman in full height non-royal persons and did not attach special importance to the background of the picture.
“Lisa with an Umbrella” was a success at the 1968 exhibition. Until 1972, Pierre Auguste used the girl twice more as a model for his paintings. This is how “Odalisque” (1870) and “Woman with a Parrot” (1871) were born.
The next masterpiece was “The Lodge” (1874). 
The painting shows a couple waiting for a performance. The woman's face is turned towards the viewer, while her companion looks through binoculars, possibly at other ladies. The woman’s slightly worried face is conveyed by pursed lips and the sparkle of slightly saddened eyes. She wondered for a moment what kind of performance awaited them, or whether she was unpleasant about this behavior of her gentleman. Or perhaps she came to the opera to show herself, and her feelings are natural - not a shadow of coquetry on her fresh face, a calm look. This painting has become one of the symbols of impressionism.
A series of portraits of famous French actresses late XVIII century in the artist’s work deserves special attention. Renoir repeatedly portrayed actress Jeanne Samary French theater"Comédie Française". The master admired the beauty of her skin, the sparkle of her eyes, radiant smile and with pleasure transferred these life-affirming colors onto Renoir’s canvas. Jeanne herself more than once emphasized that Pierre is connected with women only through a brush that conveys all sensations. Four portraits of the artist are dedicated to Samari. Of these, I would like to dwell on two canvases: “Portrait of Jeanne Samary” (1877), stored in State Museum fine arts named after A. S. Pushkin, and “Portrait of the actress Jeanne Samary” (1878), stored in the State Hermitage. 
Looking at the first portrait, the viewer sees the smiling face of a young woman, a perky look and feels the excitement of vitality and energy. It seems that in just a minute or two, our heroine will either laugh or make the viewer smile. 
“Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samari” was written a year later and shows us her in full height. She is depicted against the background of a Japanese screen, a carpet and a palm tree, in a light ball gown, shading the pearlescent appearance of the skin, highlighting Beautiful face framed by a fluffy golden hairstyle. The actress looks at the viewer, and her figure is slightly tilted, giving the impression of approaching, and although her hands are clasped together, but not clenched, it seems that at any moment they could open for an embrace. The lack of intimacy and staticism in the portrait is one of Renoir’s innovations.
The landscapes of the great artist are also impressive. Renoir preferred to depict not just peaceful nature, but genre scenes from the life of rural workers, fishermen, and naturally resting people. These are the famous “Great Bathers” (1884–1887). 
To paint each of the undines, the artist made many sketches and varied the poses of the girls. His attention is focused on three main figures placed in the foreground: a young girl standing in water that reaches her hips, captured at the moment when she is about to splash water on her two naked friends who remained on the shore. Amateur curvaceous, Renoir shows natural beauty female body, as the artist himself liked to repeat: “I continue to work on the nude until I want to pinch the canvas.” 
Renoir's painting “Nude” (1876) is a real hymn to the beauty of the female body in the artist’s understanding. His goal is to show beauty in appearance modern woman, without changing or correcting anything in it. Its beauty does not lie in the idealization of proportions and forms, but in the freshness, health and youth with which the picture literally breathes. The charm of “Nude” stems from the elastic forms of a warm body, the soft features of a rounded face, and the beauty of the skin. 
There is a lot on Renoir's canvases beautiful women with healthy, rosy-cheeked babies. A real hymn to motherhood is expressed in the painting of the same name from early 1886. It depicts an intimate scene in the garden: a young woman sits comfortably on a bench and feeds her baby. How much calm, noble dignity there is in her face! 
In the late 80s - early 90s. XVIII century came to Renoir public acceptance, including from government officials. His painting “Girls at the Piano” (1892) was acquired for the Luxembourg Museum. Despite the fact that the painting was commissioned and the artist took up the work several times, the plot turned out to be light and relaxed, and the touching scene of music lessons in rich apartments did not irritate either the public or critics.
Speaking about the work of Renoir, it is worth mentioning the canvases dedicated to his children. These are, in addition to the above-mentioned painting “Motherhood”, which depicts Renoir’s wife with his first son Pierre, also “Pierre Renoir” (1890) and “Claude Renoir Playing” (1905). 
The painting “Claude Renoir at Play” (1905) depicts the most younger son the artist, whom everyone at home called Coco, playing soldiers. The same vast world of childhood, the play of fantasy, the fleetingness of movements and thoughts.
Auguste Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) 1841-1919 French artist, recognized master portrait of a woman. Biography and paintings.
I really didn’t recommend it famous composer Charles Gounod encouraged young Auguste to devote himself to music; the boy's father, a tailor, saw the pinnacle of his son's career as a porcelain artist - profitable and respected. However, Auguste Renoir surpassed both his father's ambitions and his personal pretensions, becoming a world-famous impressionist artist who enriched the world's artistic heritage with his superb works.
From craft to art.
Young Renoir could not complain about fate - his work, which consisted of painting porcelain services, brought satisfaction and income, but technical progress, who introduced the printing technique, brought his craft to nothing. Having saved some money, the young man decided to study, choosing for himself the School at the Academy of Arts, where he ended up in the workshop of Charles Gleyre.
Already Auguste’s first steps aroused the teacher’s displeasure - the young man worked too boldly with paints, rejecting the canons of academicism. However, in the workshop Renoir found many like-minded people who were looking for new means of expression, and already in 1863 Renoir, along with Monet, Sisley, Basil, and Pissarro, stopped attending classes. Desperately fighting poverty, the future founders of impressionism worked together to obtain paints for work, as well as food.
The following years were characterized by a search for style, experiments and the first recognition of Renoir. The first iconic painting that opened up to the public unknown artist, the work “Lisa” appeared, depicting Auguste’s beloved - the Salon positively received the picture in 1868. In general, the portrait genre can be noted as the leading one in the early Renoir, and he mainly depicted his fellow artists - Sisley, Basil and his wife, Monet.
Long live impressionism!
It can be said that Renoir understood his individuality very early and formed a personal view of art in general, which consisted in the desire to give joy to the public through painting, to bring light and beauty, to the detriment of moralizing and edifying teachings.
If classical art presented things as too ideal, then Renoir advocated the maximum transfer of naturalness and reality, where light, air, immediacy, spontaneity and coloristic solutions played colossal importance. Renoir’s transitional work in his impressionist period is the painting “New Bridge”, where the plot with a carefully constructed perspective and precise architectural details is presented to the viewer through a blurred prism of air melted in the sun, due to which all the lines are devoid of clarity and the figures are definite.
In 1874, Renoir often visited Argenteuil, where Monet lived - together they painted en plein air, worked in a sketchy manner, focusing Special attention Seine as a plot. This collaboration will have a significant impact on the work of both artists.
In addition to rich landscapes and boulevard spaces, the Impressionists were invariably attracted to the theater with its numerous images, plots, and diverse audiences, and Renoir was no exception. The paintings “Lodge”, “Dancer”, “Parisian” were an excellent example of the master’s work in theatrical and theatrical scenery.
Another bright page in the master’s work was turned in 1875, when canvases appeared demonstrating the unity of man and nature – “Nude in Sunlight” and “Nude”. The paintings are distinguished by unsurpassed harmony, filled with light playing on the delicate skin of the models.
It should be noted that all these searches, which led to the creation of truly great paintings, did not bring monetary compensation - impressionism was rejected by the public, and therefore Renoir, who was faithful to the style, had a hard time. However, even then his portraits were popular, and it was they that brought in income. This is how they appeared wonderful work“Portraits of Jeanne Samary”, “Portrait of Madame Charpentier with children”, “Girl with a fan”, “Portrait of Alphonsine Fournet”, etc.
At the crest of success and the end of days.
Unlike his comrades, Renoir sought to participate in the Salon, since it was in this case that one could count on recognition. Not without the help of connections, the painter still makes his way to official exhibitions, little by little earning honor. In the early 80s, Renoir was a respected artist, and in 1883 his first solo exhibition was organized.
Early 80s Renoir meets Alina Sherigo, who became the master's wife and muse. The artist is now financially prosperous, which only contributes to creativity, thanks to numerous trips made in search of new themes.
Throughout his life, the artist remained true to himself - he is a “singer” of beauty, joy and happiness, as can be seen once again in his series of dancing pair paintings: “Dance in the Village”, “Dance in the City”, “Dance in Bougival” .
Renoir tirelessly developed his subjects in the 80s and 90s, depicting naked muses in the lap of nature (“Large Bathers”, “Seated Bather”) and creating portraits of amazing beauty (“Girl in a Straw Hat”, “Hairdressing” girl") until the tragic injury received after falling from a bicycle. The consummate optimist, Renoir, who broke right hand, learned to write with his left hand, however, rapidly developing arthritis reminded of itself with pain and atrophy.
With the advent of the 1900s came international recognition, foreign exhibitions, worldwide fame and the receipt of honorary insignia, but nothing could save Renoir from paralysis. The end of his life turned out to be completely bleak - two sons returned wounded from the First World War, Alina, who fought for her husband’s health, quickly passed away under the weight of worries, and the master himself continued to be consumed by illness.
But until his death on December 2, 1919, the master’s palette shone with optimism and joy, and his work was full of admiration for light, smooth skin, gentle curves of the body, a radiant smile and bright eyes. Renoir before last days served the burden I had once chosen for myself in art - to bring joy and light through painting. His paintings eloquently tell how he accomplished the task.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is considered one of the leading figures in impressionism. Throughout his time, he created more than a thousand paintings. The artist was so devoted to painting that even being chained to wheelchair, he painted with a brush tied to his hand.
Renoir might not have become an artist. As a boy, he sang in a church choir, and the teacher seriously insisted that he be sent to study music. However, when the parents noticed how beautifully their son drew with charcoal on the walls, they sent him as an apprentice. He painted porcelain in Mr. Levy's workshop.
13-year-old Renoir worked incredibly quickly and efficiently. The owner of the workshop did not know whether to be happy or upset. “Boy! And he makes so much money!”- he sighed. Mister Levy lowered the rate young talent and transferred him to piecework payment, but still Pierre Auguste worked at such a speed that he soon earned so much money that it was enough to buy a house for his parents.
When Auguste Renoir found himself in the house of Richard Wagner, he was able to paint a portrait of the famous composer in just 35 minutes.
Despite the fact that Renoir’s work is classified as impressionism, the artist did not force himself into the clear framework of any particular style. He experimented. After studying Renaissance painting, the artist's style of work was influenced by the paintings of Raphael and other masters of that era. This period of his work is called “Ingres” (derived from the name of the leader of European academicism of the 19th century, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres).
Last 10 years XIX centuries, art historians define Renoir’s “mother-of-pearl” period. It was then that the painter actively experiments with color transitions, while maintaining his individual style. His paintings are filled with a peculiar play of light and a special charm.
In 1897, the artist had an unfortunate fall from his bicycle, breaking his arm. Against this background, he developed rheumatism. Another 13 years later, Renoir suffered an attack of paralysis, which confined him to a wheelchair. But the desire to create paintings helped the artist live. He asked the maid to tie the brush to his hand and continued to create.
Fame and universal recognition came to Renoir only in last years his life. When the painting “Umbrellas” was exhibited at the London National Gallery in 1917, the artist began to receive hundreds of letters. People who saw his painting congratulated Renoir on his success: “From the moment your painting was hung alongside the works of the old masters, we felt the joy that our contemporary had taken his rightful place in European painting.”
In 1919, a few months before his death, the already paralyzed Renoir arrived at the Louvre only to see his painting in the art museum.
Renoir continues to make headlines even in the 21st century. In 2009, a woman bought a painting at a flea market for $7. Later it turned out that “Landscape on the banks of the Seine” belongs to the brush of Renoir and is estimated at between 75 and 100 thousand US dollars.
Not only the painting by Auguste Renoir, but also other works of art, ironically, ended up at flea markets. These
