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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Garden, Rue Cortot"

12/4/2020

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Garden in the Rue Cortot, Montmartre, 1876; Carnegie Museum of Art.
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Although generally listed as a reproduction, the modern artwork below is only loosely based on Renoir's painting Garden in the Rue Cortot, Montmartre. The original, as seen above in the Carnegie Museum's photo, is tall in shape, and reflects Renoir's typical style, including the artist's trademark coloring, brushwork, subtlety, and depth of composition. The contemporary painting is shorter - but instead of cropping off the top and/or bottom to achieve the change, it has rearranged the composition entirely — crowding many of the elements of the original into a shorter frame. Together with the randomly enhanced coloring, the changes have produced an image that no longer looks like a Renoir. This is definitely an occasion for a so-called reproduction to be captioned more accurately as a new painting "inspired by" Renoir.
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Modern artwork based loosely on a painting by Auguste Renoir.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Umbrellas"

11/28/2020

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "The Umbrellas," c.1881-86; © The National Gallery, London.
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Renoir's The Umbrellas at the National Gallery, London; Artnet, September 2019.
This is a very popular Renoir, and hundreds of reproductions are available, many with the types of altered coloring seen in the images below. The first example has changed the blues, given the faces a slightly flushed look, turned the clouds pink, and obscured some of the detail. The second one has also misrepresented the blue tones, and the faces and clouds have gone a bit green. There's also a lot of blotchiness in places where there should be detail. Luckily, a first-hand photo is easily available at the National Gallery's website, and provides an excellent digital copy of the original.
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Altered version of a painting by Auguste Renoir.
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Altered version of a painting by Auguste Renoir.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Spring Bouquet"

11/19/2020

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Spring Bouquet, 1866; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum.
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This is the famous and stunning still life by Renoir, shown above in an excellent photo from the museum where it's located. Sadly, thousands of revised modern copies and photos have been circulating online for years, rarely indicating that they aren't faithful to Renoir's original. Most of the modern versions, like the popular one below, add new colors, remove the subtleties of the original, and ignore much of the gorgeous, Dutch-inspired detail seen in the authentic work. The museum adds an informative note about Spring Bouquet:
For many French artists during the 1860s, the floral still life persisted as a test of pure painterly ability. This exuberant bouquet [...] attests to the artist's engagement with past art historical traditions. He addresses the ennobled Dutch practice of still life through the large scale of his canvas, while his attention to the textures and colors of the arrangement evokes the work of early eighteenth-century French painters like Antoine Watteau and François Boucher.

The painting also demonstrates Renoir's development as an artist. Instead of applying the paint with a palette knife — a technique he borrowed from artists such as Courbet — Renoir adopted a freer and thinner stroke using solely a brush.
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Altered version of a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Sisters, On The Terrace"

10/23/2020

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881; Art Institute of Chicago.
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There's something special about an original Renoir — the sophisticated execution, the exquisite flesh tones, the quality of color, the emotion and sense of place. Sadly, the recently spotted reproduction below obscures all of these elements. The way that Two Sisters (On the Terrace) is intended to be seen and felt is expressed by notes from the Art Institute of Chicago, where the work is located:
Technically, the painting is a tour de force: Renoir juxtaposed solid, almost life-size figures against a landscape that — like a stage set — seems a realm of pure vision and fantasy. The sewing basket in the left foreground evokes a palette, holding the bright, pure pigments that the artist mixed, diluted, and altered to create the rest of the painting. Although the girls were not actually sisters, Renoir's dealer showed the work with this title, [along with others] at the seventh Impressionist exhibition in 1882.
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Altered version of a painting by Auguste Renoir.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Standing Bather"

10/6/2020

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Standing Bather, c.1885; The Clark Institute.
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This is one of several paintings and drawings by Renoir called "Standing Bather," many of which are similar in composition and execution. The purple version of this painting, seen below, has appeared regularly online. It's clearly a newly-minted interpretation with an imaginative color scheme. I don't know much about the origin of the contemporary copy, but the museum's photo is definitely the better choice.
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Altered version of a painting by Renoir.
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Auguste Renoir, "Little Irene"

9/24/2020

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Irène Cahen d'Anvers (Little Irene), 1880; Emil Bührle Collection, Zurich. 
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What a beauty! Such a magnificent painting, and very well known. Yet various reproductions and extreme digital alterations — like the one below — are still making the rounds on social media, and have been widely accepted as fair copies of the original.
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Altered version of a painting by Auguste Renoir.
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