Renoir: Late style



The Late Style After his dry period, he started a new flowery style. Now Renoir was not interested in the model, just the colours. He made everything look like a garden of some fairytale story, with happy harmonies using reds, yellows and blues. The last fifteen years production of Renoir was contemporaneous with the expressive circle of Henri Matisse, the new style of Picasso, Cubism and the inconcrete style of painting Wassily Kandinsky.		The Vintagers Pierre Auguste Renoir 26 in x 22 in Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Framed \| Mounted
Picking Flowers Pierre Auguste Renoir 25 in x 22 in Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Framed \| Mounted	The portraits of Renoir lost their psychological charm, painting faces with empty feelings. But, the most beautiful ones are of Coco, his third child. The portraits of Gabrielle showed simple work with quietly and grateful feelings. Instead of copying his models, Renoir was inspired by them. In the summer 1901, Gabrielle and another model, posed with oriental dresses like dancers with tambourine and castanet. Those pictures were bought by the Parisian collector, Maurice Gangnat.	Jeune Filles Au Bord De Leau Pierre Auguste Renoir 32 in x 24 in Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Framed \| Mounted
The nude of young women was his favourite motif after his dry period. Renoir only painted the bodies of these young women. He represented them with no spirit, intelligence or consciousness. More like beautiful flowers or animals. Just at the end of his life, the nudes of Renoir got dignity and grandiosity or the great masters. All his life, Renoir always searched for beauty. This made him only show part of the truth. He loved people, light, nature. In times when around him was all existential anguish and desperation, Renoir never stopped of formulating in his painting the possibility of life of happiness and harmony.		"The Bathers" by Pierre Auguste Renoir



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