00:00Renoir is really a painting of love,
00:02their naked arms,
00:02the game of the eyes of this man.
00:05It's not an erotic painting,
00:06very explicit painting.
00:07This is luncheon of the Bowdoin party,
00:10a painting considered a masterpiece
00:11by the French artist Auguste Renoir.
00:14That's a Renoir.
00:15It's a Renoir.
00:15The Renoir.
00:16But why is Renoir such an important artist?
00:19First, Renoir is known as an impressionist.
00:22What is new with the impressionism,
00:24is obviously the fact of painting
00:25the essence of the painting in plein air,
00:28and not in atelier,
00:29and to try to represent
00:31the most just as possible
00:32the light and the colors
00:34that the eye sees in reality
00:36in the light of the atelier.
00:38So we see, in fact,
00:39the importance of the elements
00:40that reflect the light,
00:41the verts,
00:42and then we see the importance
00:43of the blancs
00:44that are spread a little bit everywhere.
00:46These are the blancs
00:46that are tinted with reflections.
00:49And that's the beauty of the impressionism.
00:50It's to show that
00:51the objects in nature
00:53reflect the colors
00:55that there are around them.
00:57Second, Renoir is particularly known
00:59for painting new subjects.
01:01Classical painting of the time
01:02focused primarily on historical,
01:05mythological,
01:05or religious subjects.
01:07Renoir was groundbreaking
01:08because he depicted everyday life.
01:10Renoir is one of the first,
01:12the first even,
01:13to represent,
01:14in such a large format,
01:15a scene of popular conviviality.
01:17He often comes to this idea
01:19of a restaurant,
01:20a cafe,
01:21or a public banquet,
01:22which are places
01:23where we are.
01:23There are places
01:24of human relationship
01:25where the body is important.
01:27Here,
01:28the men who have their hands
01:30are nus.
01:30And that, for Renoir,
01:31this is important
01:32because it is a sign
01:33of a form of a kind of
01:34a kind of a kind of a nudity.
01:36Well, it's not really
01:36a nudity,
01:37but in any case,
01:38a body that is relaxed
01:39in a more natural pose.
01:42This is during the industrial revolution,
01:44with the rise of a certain bourgeoisie
01:46and a culture of leisure.
01:47So painting all of this was new.
01:49All these are attitudes that also show a form of relaxation of social codes
01:54in these places where there is a social mix between the most popular canotiers
01:59and the more bourgeois characters.
02:03Finally, unlike other impressionists who were painting figures
02:07that were sometimes disconnected from one another,
02:10Renoir painted relationships, connections, and more specifically, love.
02:15Another element that is very important in this table, in particular,
02:18is the game of regards.
02:21And Renoir les relie tous, each one to the other.
02:24It's what makes the particularity of Renoir,
02:25it's this way of assembling the people by regards and gestures.
02:29For example, here, you have the hand of this man
02:32who touches the face of the woman.
02:35Here, the hand of this woman has a look at the hand of this man.
02:39All this way of linking the characters each other,
02:42to create a feeling of intimacy, of conviviality, of links.
02:46It's really the particularity of Renoir,
02:47which, in a way, is really a part of love, in a large sense.
02:51Now, we can ask the question,
02:52is there a relationship in this table?
02:53Here, this man with this woman,
02:55he, looking at the face, it's not very clear.
02:58For some historians, he is rather interested by the woman,
03:00for others, he is rather interested by the canotiers.
03:02It's not an erotic painting, it's not an explicit painting.
03:06It's a painting on the naissance of the relationship,
03:09on the flirt, on the meetings, but also,
03:12the friendship and, in some way,
03:14a form of conviviality more large.
03:16So now, we ask, why do we still love Renoir so much today?
03:20Renoir is an artist who is quite easy to love,
03:23because it's a painting that is still talking about us today.
03:27These people who are talking on a table,
03:29in a restaurant, that could be us.
03:31And it's a painting that knows you,
03:33through this power and harmony of colors.
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