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Landscape at Pont-Aven
Creator
Pierre-Auguste RenoirFrench Artist · 1841–1919
All works by this person →> The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest. > > --Pierre-Auguste Renoir With Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir helped found Impressionism, freeing painting from having to tell a story. Artists could simply capture what they saw. The son of a tailor in Limoges, Renoir saved the money he earned from painting china, fans, and window shades to move to Paris. G
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- 1892
- Medium
- Watercolor and gouache
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Drawings
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- Getty Museum
From the 1890s onward, Renoir abandoned the modern city as a subject, embracing the idyllic countryside, still uncorrupted by human civilization, as the focus of his art. This river landscape near the village of Pont-Aven, Brittany, demonstrates his exquisite sensitivity to natural phenomena, such as the movement of water and the reflection of light. The area had been popular with artists, including Paul Gauguin, since the 1850s.
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