Pierre-Auguste Renoir Research Paper

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement's most common practitioners. He is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Renoir discover Renaissance painting in the middle of his career, which led him to incorporate more line and composition into his developed works and create some of his era's most timeless canvases. He could influence from Romanticism and Baroque style period. The two artists are Diego Velazquez and Eugene Delacroix’s which Renoir could have get influences from because their paintings have something similar in the portrait painting named “By the Seashore” by the impressionist Renoir.

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