Renoir

About Renoir

Renoir is a surname, a phonetic corruption of the French surname, "Renouard."

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Renoir is a surname, a phonetic corruption of the French surname, "Renouard."

People with the surname Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), French Impressionist painter

Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), French actor and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Jean Renoir (1894–1979), French film director and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Claude Renoir (1901–1969), French film producer and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Claude Renoir (1913–1993), French cinematographer and son of Pierre Renoir, grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Sophie Renoir (born 1964), French actress, daughter of the younger Claude

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Notable quotes

“[ Bazille..] had not died romantically, galloping over a Delacroix' battlefield.. ..but stupidly, during the retreat, on a muddy road.. ..that pure-hearted gentle knight.. [quote, shortly after 1870, on the death of Bazille].”
— as cited in Renoir, my Father, Jean Renoir; p. 124; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 83 + 94
“I went to see this picture [Raphael's painting 'Madonna della Sedia' which Renoir saw in Florence in 1882] just to have a good laugh – and I found myself in front of the most wonderfully free, solid, simple, alive painting it is possible to imagine – arms and legs of real flesh, and what a touching expression of maternal tenderness.”
— p. 161-162 : (1882), in a letter to Vollard
“For me, a painting must be a pleasant thing, joyous and pretty - yes, pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life for us to fabricate still more.”
— As quoted in: Faber Birren (1965) History of color in painting: with new principles of color expression. p. 284-5
“They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.”
— Quoted in
“What a charming girl! And what a skin! She positively radiated light around her.”
— p. 150 : Recalling the model Jeanne Samary.
“It gives my brain a rest, painting flowers. I don't feel the same tension as when I have a model in front of me. When I paint flowers, I put on colours and try out values boldly, without worrying about wasting a canvas. I wouldn't dare to do it with a figure; I'd be afraid of spoiling the whole thing. And the experience I gain this way is then applied to my pictures.”
— p. 196 : quote on painting flowers, to art-buyer George Riviere, who was watching a flower still-life of Renoir.

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