Do you know what impressionism means? A lot of artists are Impressionists, which developed in the 1960s in Paris. It is a style of painting mainly with French artist. Impressionist painting seeks to recreate the artist’s or viewer’s observation of a scene. It characterized by outlines from small brushstrokes of different colors. In impressionist paintings, pastel colors are frequently used. One of a popular impressionist painter is Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. He came from a working family, his father a tailor and mother a seamstress. He was the sixth of seven children, but …show more content…
She was his girlfriend for a short amount of time and is captured in the paintings "Diana" (1867) and "Lise" (1867). Renoir’s life was put on a pause for a while due to being drafted for the army to serve in France’s war against Germany in 1970. Though, he never fought because once assigned to a unit he fell ill with dysentery. Soon after the war ended he could make his way back home, where him and his friends put their works up on their own in Paris in 1874. This also became known as the first Impressionist exhibition, which was not successful. Though for Renoir, the exhibits brought recognition to his art work from patrons, and he got paid portrait projects to make a living. In the 1880s, Renoir departed from Impressionism and his artist friends. He was looking for inspiration, so he traveled Italy to rediscovered some of his old master's’ works. During this time, he began to outline his figures in his art works to give them clarity. This time period is also where Renoir’s least successful works came about. An example of this is “The Umbrellas” (1883). But by the end of the 1880s this phases pasted, and his work were beautiful and remarkable. Renoir’s painting then continued to get recognized, and his achievements continued to