Its peak with Bonington, Friedrich, Corot and others. Decline in Impressionism to deliberate omission in ‘primitives’ such as Cézanne and Astrup.
Pissarro
Using repeated forms, usually regularly spaced, is a well-known technique for increasing depth, adding optical effects, and more.
Far from being the idyllic countryside, the gleaners who followed the harvesters brought a strong social message.
Impressionists seem not to have taken to skying, and most of their paintings have high horizons. But there are exceptions.
Painting Symbolist works in Divisionist style, he’s normally excluded from both movements, despite his success at the time.
During his lifetime, Durand-Ruel bought a total of 1,500 paintings by Renoir, over 1,000 Monets, 800 Pissarros, over 400 by Degas, and almost 400 from each of Sisley and Mary Cassatt.
More favourite articles from 2019, from ‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’ as painted by William Blake, through Vincent van Gogh, to Renoir’s landscapes.
A short illustrated history of Renoir’s career as a landscape painter, from Barbizon to La Grenouillère, Post-Impressionism and the influence of Corot and Cézanne.
In which Renoir seeks comfort from his arthritis in the south of France, first in Le Cannet, then Cagnes-sur-Mer. Marvellous landscapes.
There’s been extensive speculation over his late landscapes painted near Aix. Here’s the evidence in the paintings themselves.
