Last term Lillie spent a few happy weeks learning all about the Impressionist painters. She has included Renoir, Seurat, Degas and Monet. She studied one of these artists for two weeks. This week’s artist is Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Resources
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French painter who was instrumental in starting the impressionist movement of the nineteenth century.
She used the following books throughout her project:
As well as the courses found here:
Resources Specific to Renoir
Goals for this Study
Lillie read about Renoir and his paintings and created a scrap-book page with a gallery of Renoir’s paintings and a short biography:
Renoir was famous for his ability to paint people going about their normal business. Lillie chose her focus for this project to be the human face. Faces are particularly hard for Lil, so she did lots of practice:
This particular study provoked a lot of self-reflection for Lillie, which she writes about on her blog:
She did a review of Renoir’s ‘Little Irene’ before attempting to partially replicate it:
This was her final piece. As she had focused on the facial features she just replicated the head of Irene:
Another great study under her belt 🙂
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I always loved Renoir; I had to do a self- portrait in college and mine ended up looking quite impressionistic. Your daughter has a lot of talent!
I love the impressionists. We definitely could have spent a looong time on them. But time waits for no man, and she has moved on to Van Gogh who is about as impressionistic as any artist could be given he is deemed to be post impressionistic!
Nice job! Portraits are so hard to do!
Thanks Phyllis!
Lillie is really growing as an artist. I haven’t had a chance to visit her blog, but I know Gracie has seen it. Keep up the fantastic work Lillie!
Thanks Donna. She doesn’t update it very regularly yet but one day….
Great job! I’m having so much fun watching y’all go through this study.
This looks way more fun than our art lessons when I was a kid!
If you kids like puzzles they are learning about Renoir they might like doing Luncheon of the Boating Party as a puzzle to get more in touch with the artist’s style and composition:
https://amazingwizkids.com/product-category/puzzles/
Thanks Suzanne, I’ll check it out!