La Parisienne

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La Parisienne
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La Parisienne, by Renoir, painted in 1874
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Is she wearing indoor or outdoor clothes?
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Where do you think she is going?
Is she wearing indoors or outdoors clothes?
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Where do you think she is going?
How is she feeling?
Is she wearing indoors or outdoors clothes?
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Where do you think she is going?
How is she feeling?
Is she wearing indoors or outdoors clothes?
Who is she looking at?
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Texture is how something feels. Has
Renoir been successful in creating the illusion
of texture in this painting?
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How has the artist applied the paint to the
canvas to create the frilly, flowing textures?
Look carefully at his brushstrokes.
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Renoir has used loose, almost sketchy
brushstrokes. Van Cronenburgh has used a fine
brush and small, detailed touches of paint .
Both artists have painted in oils but can you see
the difference in technique?
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The Impressionists

• The impressionists were a group of artists
  working in France in the mid C19th. They
  included Monet, Degas, Morisot, Sisley, Pissarro
  and Renoir.

• They were inspired by scientific discoveries
  about how the eye sees colour.

• They were interested in capturing a fleeting
  moment of time in their paintings.

• They painted in small touches of pure colour
  which joined to make the required hue only when
  the spectator stood at a certain distance from
  the canvas.

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Tones
Look at the different tones (values) of blue that
Renoir has used, which other colours can you see?
Click here to find out about tone
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