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Visiting The Biltmore

Posted in Serendipity, Travel, tagged Art, Asheville NC, Biltmore, Claude Monet, Renoir, Sargent on October 6, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Every time I go I see something different. I especially love seeing the art… Monet’s, Renior’s, Sargent’s…. Wow!

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Art Camp 4-Day 2 “Renoir”

Posted in Art Camp, tagged Art Camp, boat, Renoir on July 14, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday at Art Camp we discussed Pierre-Auguste Renoir and recreated one of his beautiful paintings. It was quite the challenge but these young painters went for it and did an excellent job. We learn so much by looking at these amazing historical pieces and trying to do the same type of work. And each day we build on what we learned the day before. These kids are to be commended for being fearless. There is nothing they won’t try on canvas. Great work everyone!!!! For more information on the rest of the summer’s schedule click here.

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Renoir, Blue Dog and Campers

Posted in Art Camp, daily painter, tagged Blue Dog, Renoir on July 24, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday we completed the Renoir painting we started the day before as well as a Blue Dog work of art. It was the last day of camp for this group….Lincoln’s new Fan Club. He loved this group and stuck his tongue out at me when I told him they would not be back today. LOL! Great work by these young artists!!!

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Renoir in Philadelphia

Posted in Little Known Facts, Serendipity, tagged Renoir on April 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »

It seems that the only thing we saw on or visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art was Monet but that’s now true. We saw many other wonderful painters work including Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Here are a couple of them.

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Young Campers, Renoir & Jed!

Posted in Art Camp, Dogs, tagged Art Camp, Jed, Renoir on July 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »

The young art campers painted a “Renoir” yesterday at The Studio. They did great on a really difficult painting. All these young artists are terrific. I love seeing how proud they are when their parents/grandparents have their work framed. Keep Painting everyone!

Jed 1 And today we celebrate Jed’s birthday. Happy 9th Birthday sweet boy!

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Happy Birthday Renoir

Posted in Serendipity, tagged Renoir on February 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Renoir Self-Portrait Renoir self-portrait-1875 I missed wishing Renoir a Happy Birthday yesterday. We shouldn’t let the day pass without recognizing his wonderful talent. “Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Viene, France, the child of a working-class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to his being chosen to paint designs on fine china. Before he enrolled in art school, he also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans. During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters.” Read more about Renoir here.

What strikes me most now about Renoir is all that I have read about his late life when he developed rheumatoid arthritis but continued to work by strapping brushes to his hands when he could no longer hold them. Amazing!

Here are three pictures of Renoir. A photograph taken near the end of his life. The others are two self-portraits (selfies!)..one from 1875 and the other in 1899.

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Behind the Scenes at the National Gallery of Art

Posted in Serendipity, Travel, tagged Cezanne, Degas, Monet, Morrisot, National Gallery of Art, Renoir on August 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Greg Jecmen reviewing what were seeing

Degas pastel

Degas Pastel

Degas Charcoal Drawing

Renoir study for the Country Dancers

Degas Charcoal and Pastel Study of Jockeys

Close-up of jockey 1

Close-up of jockey 2

Degas Charcoal and Pastel Horse and Jockey study

Degas Charcoal Horse Study

Yesterday morning we had a wonderful opportunity to go behind the scenes at the National Gallery of Art and visit with Gregory Jecman, Associate Curator of Old Master Prints and Drawings. He pulled some drawings and pastels by Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, and Morrisot that we were allowed to examine up close. It was a rare experience.

We were amazed to see the detail of the work so close up. The National Gallery offers many programs like this that a free for the asking as long as you make an appointment in advance. For art lovers it is a must! Here are the wonderful Degas’ and a Renoir that we saw yesterday. There was so much to see that I will share the other things we saw in the next few days.

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Happy Birthday Renoir!

Posted in Little Known Facts, tagged Renoir on February 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Renoir painting in later years with brushes tied to hand

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Luncheon of the Boating Party, oil, 51″ x 68″, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

** Pierre Auguste Renoir was born February 25, 1841 in Limoges, France. He was a French painter and one of the central figures of the impressionist movement (a French art movement of the second half of the nineteenth century whose members sought in their works to represent the first impression of an object upon the viewer). His work is characterized by a richness of feeling and a warmth of response to the world and to the people in it.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919)
“Girl with a Watering Can”
oil on canvas
41”x29”
Painted in 1876
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women.

Renoir was so passionate about painting that he even continued when he was old and suffering from severe arthritis. Renoir then painted with the brush tied to his wrists.

** This information from “The Complete Works” website. Click on Renoir’s name above to read and see more.

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National Gallery of Art

Posted in Little Known Facts, Serendipity, Travel, tagged National Gallery of Art, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec on October 20, 2014| 1 Comment »

Andrew Wyeth

I spent a delightful afternoon leading a tour group from The Village at Orchard Ridge to the National Gallery of Art in DC yesterday. We made the trip to see the wonderful Andrew Wyeth exhibit, “Looking Out- Looking In”. The exhibit closes the end of November and if you haven’t seen it yet you MUST go take a look. Amazing watercolors with a limited palette. Wonderful!

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. “Lady with a Dog”, oil on cardboard, 1891

Auguste Renoir, “Mlle Charlotte Berthier”, oil on canvas, 1883

We had some time to see a lot more art and I will share more with you this week. Here are two we saw in the Impressionist Galleries by Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. Of course, they caught my eye because they had pups in them. 🙂

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Renoir Ends the 1st Week of Art Camp

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Girl with Watering Can, impressionism, Landscape, Renoir on June 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Art Camp Week 1
copy of Renoir’s Girl with Watering Can

The first session of Art Camp ended yesterday with the young painters completing a beautiful copy of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s, (1841-1919) “Girl with a Watering Can” , painted in 1876 and now at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919)
“Girl with a Watering Can”
oil on canvas
41”x29”
Painted in 1876
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

These artists were not deterred by the large size we decided to paint our “masterpiece” and they all did extraordinary work. Great job girls! It was a pleasure painting with you this week.

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