Pierre-Auguste Renoir Paintings - Luncheon of the Boating Party, Bal Du Moulin de La Galette, Pink and Blue, Nude, a Girl with a Watering Can (Paperback)

Chapters: Luncheon of the Boating Party, Bal Du Moulin de La Galette, Pink and Blue, Nude, a Girl With a Watering Can. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881, French: Le dejeuner des canotiers) is a painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is currently housed in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. The painting depicts a group of Renoir's friends relaxing on a balcony at the Maison Fournaise along the Seine river in Chatou, France. The painter and art patron, Gustave Caillebotte, is seated in the lower right. Renoir's future wife, Aline Charigot, is in the foreground playing with a small dog. In this painting Renoir has captured a great deal of light. As you can see the main focus of light is coming from the large opening in the balcony, beside the large singleted man in the hat. The singlets of both men in the foreground and the table-cloth both work together to reflect this light and send it through the whole composition. It was featured prominently in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain released in English as Amelie (2001). The most prominent reference is a comparison between the film's protagonist, Amelie, and the woman in the centre sipping a glass (Actress Ellen Andree), seemingly gazing out of the canvas, uninterested, while everyone else is enjoying the day together. A homage to this painting appears in the final panel of On the False Earths, the seventh volume of Jean-Claude Mezieres and Pierre Christin's long-running comic book series Valerian and Laureline. Actor Edward G. Robinson is quoted as saying: For over thirty years I made periodic visits to Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party in a Washington museum, and stood before that magnificent masterpie...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=175141