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Renoir showed his talent for drawing and painting at an early age. By the age of 14, he was working in a china factory in Paris painting porcelain. He would save enough money to allow him to finance his training. Renoir would study painting at Gleyre’s atelier. Renoir recalled being, "…always quiet in the corner, very attentive, very docile, studying the model and listening to the teacher…" Renoir believed, "It is in the museums that one learns to paint…it is at the museum that one develops the feeling for painting which nature alone cannot give us." (Renoir would visit the Louvre). When the first Impressionist exhibit was held in 1874 at Nadar’s, Renoir showed seven of his works.
Renoir’s philosophy was to paint the good life. His human subjects are
always in good health and the colors used in his landscapes reflect everything
bright and alive. The fluid, smooth brushwork reveals the intensity of feeling
he had for painting. Renoir used the color black on his palette.* He said, "Black is a very important color…the mistake the academic painters made was in seeing only the black, and in its pure state…It’s the combination of tones that gives the impression of black. We should use black but in a mixture as it is in nature." In other words, the "color" black can consist of a variety of dark colors. Renoir did not adhere strictly to the Impressionism philosophy of working out in nature. Renoir stated, "…a picture is meant to be looked at inside a house, so a little work must be done in the studio, in addition to what one has done out-of-doors."
*Palette: a thin board with a thumb hole at one end. Used by painters
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