Pierre-Auguste Renoir is French painter who was important figure in the development of the Impressionist movement. As a celebrator of feminine beauty "Renoir is the last representative of a tradition which runs in a straight line from Rubens to Watteau." Renoirs artworks are famous for their vivacious light and saturated color; most frequently focusing on people in friendly and intimate compositions. The female nudes were one of his primary themes. In typical Impressionist manner; Renoir suggested the details of a picture through liberally brushed touches of color; so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their environment. Famed for his sensual nudes and charming scenes of pretty women; Renoir was a far more complex and thoughtful painter than generally assumed. He was a founding member of the Impressionist movement; nevertheless he ceased to exhibit with the group after 1877. From the 1880s until well into the twentieth century; he developed a monumental; classically inspired style that influenced such avant-garde giants as Pablo Picasso.
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