"Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the Beauty of Life"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist period. The Impressionist period was light and spontaneous, which was against the formal way of the years before. It captures people in carefree leisure with color and light. In Renoir's early years, he stuck to painting beautiful landscapes, but broke away from the movement in his later years for a more disciplined and structured technique for portraits and figure paintings. Renoir painted the beauty in …showed first 75 words of 926 total…

…showed last 75 words of 926 total…and painted. He painted the little pleasures all throughout life that we enjoy. He painted the things he loved the most. Once Renoir sat at his canvas, he was in control to paint the world however he saw fit. Renoir painted the beauty in the paintings because if the world couldn't be as beautiful and wonderful as he saw them, then at least he could create a world of his own where everything was beautiful.