Renoir: Origin, ambient, teachers and friends



Some of Renoir's paintings show the elegant figures of Goujou. Renoir worked for years as a porcelain painter. The development of a machine that painted porcelain made him lose his job. After that, he painted fans, then tapestry in churches for missionaries of Ultramar, getting very quick and agile with his brushtroke.	La Danse a Ville Pierre-Auguste Renoir 14 in x 11 in Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Framed \| Mounted	At 21, he had enough money to start his painting studies. In April 1862 he started in the "École des Beaux-Arts" , the Superior center of art studies. The director of the school was the count Alfred de Nieuwerkerke, who rejected the realism. In that school they draw correctly, mainly historic paintings. His first teacher was Charles Gleyre, who became famous twenty years before then for painting a very cold alegoric painting.
He used to go to his private classes, where 30 or 40 pupils painted and drew a nude model. He had a great relation with bright and luminous colors, that caused him problems in the Art school. In the first week he had a confrontation with Gleyre. "I tried very hard to copy the model. Gleyre watched my work and with a very cold expression say: `With no doubts, you paint just for fun´ - `Of course I do´ I answered, `Sir, you can be sure that I would not paint if I do not have fun doing it´
Jean Renoir Pierre Auguste Renoir 18 in x 22 in Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Framed \| Mounted	In his answer we can notice his innovative relation with art, less serious and scrupulous about "Sublime God Art", so more sensitive, real and personal. Another student did not agree with the teacher method: Claude Monet. Renoir made friends with him and also with Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille.	Renoirs House At Essoyes 1906 Pierre Auguste Renoir 32 in x 24 in Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Framed \| Mounted
In May 1863, the group of friends saw a rejected painting from the Salon (an exposition organized by the Arts Academy), the painting had very luminious and bright colors. Manet panted it. Renoir and his friends included him in their friendship circle.
Young Girls At Waters Edge Pierre-Auguste Renoir 16 in x 20 in Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Framed \| Mounted	Gleyre retired form teaching in 1864, but the young painters carried on working without any teacher. In the spring, Monet took his friends to the Chailly-en-Bière village, in the Fountanebleau forest, to make a study of nature.	Dance at the Moulin de la Galetter Pierre-Augusta Renoir 14 in x 11 in Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Framed \| Mounted
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