Sharjah: Aladdin Mahmoud
What most distinguishes the paintings of the French painter Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is his interest in portraying human features and scenes of happy life. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Impressionist school. The Louvre to study the works of the great painters, but the great turning point in his life was the moment he met three distinguished painters during his studies in Paris at the hands of the artist Charles Glare in 1862, and they are: Alfred Sisley and Frederick Bazille, in addition to Claude Monet, who was greatly influenced by him, despite the great fame that Renoir occupies it, but his beginnings did not witness tangible success, but ten years after his first exhibition, people discovered his value, and 6 of his paintings were displayed in the first exhibition of the Impressionist school.
Renoir was born into a working-class family, and lived a life of extreme poverty, and he distributed his day between the museum and the factory in which he worked, where he was fascinated early on by the paintings of giants of Renaissance painters such as Da Vinci and Caravaggio, and with the passage of time he began to transfer some inscriptions from the museum’s paintings and its ceiling To the porcelain utensils in the factory, and he found that a great pleasure, especially since the owner of the factory was very impressed with his drawings, and when he matured technically, he visited many countries of the world, including: Algeria, to which he went for treatment of inflammatory disease due to its good climate, and there he accomplished many Artworks influenced by the East, and this artist was distinguished by a special and unique style. As his paintings are saturated with dazzling colors, in addition to the strength of the contrast between light and shadow, which are the features that characterize the Impressionist school, the school that Renoir, along with other artists of his friends, contributed to its founding.
The painting “Two Sisters in the Balcony”, painted by Renoir in 1881, in oil colors on linen canvas, is considered one of his most beautiful and famous works. The soul is from feelings and emotions, so showing beauty was his real concern, and the painting was inspired by spring scenes in a town called “Chateau”, in which he had spent not a short time, and it is characterized by its picturesque and charming scenery, and as usual the Impressionists do not work to convey nature directly, but rather They work from within nature itself, away from studios and closed rooms, as he can paint the same scene at different times in order to show the extent of changing colors, and the extent of their impact on the landscape. Colors and brush strokes are the artist’s game, and that is what Renoir did in this wonderful painting that embodies the choice The aesthetic of the artist who always preferred to paint what he considered beautiful.
a description
In the scene of the painting, two girls appear, sitting on a balcony, enjoying peace and tranquility on a warm day in front of a landscape, with the Seine River behind them. The older girl wears formal clothes with a red hat, and she looks at her younger sister, who was wearing a floral dress and wearing a hat full of colorful flowers. Her eyes radiate innocence, and she rests her hands on the table in front of them, and in front of the two girls is a small basket embracing balls of wool. Where the lake covered with colorful flowers and green grass.
The features of the two girls indicate that they belong to the aristocracy, and this is evidenced by the way Renoir draws the characters, and in this painting his skill appeared in translating the relationship between the two girls and expressing them in an innovative style, and he deliberately created an atmosphere that appears blurry in the background of the painting, which makes the viewer focus greatly on the two girls, which increases the brilliance and dynamism of the work.
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The artist excelled in conveying the warmth of feelings to the viewer, who would feel the magic of this summer day and its beauty and distinction, and Renoir succeeded in translating his own impression of the scene in this vibrant work, and was able to create a color mixture of varying degrees between dark and bright, and the viewer can It is noted that the colors are common in a number of scenes, such as the hats and the radiance appearing in the face of the two sisters, which the painter expressed with a red color that symbolizes vitality.
In the painting, Renoir’s ingenuity appears in soft brush strokes, and the poetic feeling he exerted in drawing. It is noticeable that Renoir in this work did not follow in the footsteps of the classics in their interest in light colors and gradual shades reaching the horizon of the painting, but rather he expressed the scene in an innovative way. Where he resorted to painting the background with intense colors, and he did so to a great extent in the foreground, with a difference in the tones; So that the work is distinguished by clarity and luster, and Renoir’s genius in the painting is evident through his innovative treatment of faces. Where the distant young woman in the scene of the painting seemed to be closest to the foreground through the treatments of color and light.
The charm of the place
This place, in which the painting was painted, has a special charm, a different location and a distinguished position for the artist. The balcony is part of the “House of the Oven”, which is a restaurant located on an island in the Seine River in the Chateau, which is the western suburb of Paris, in the Ultras area. the painter with two girls to act as sisters; Where the model for the older sister was the actress Jane Darlot, while it was not known who embodied the model of the younger sister, and this region witnessed Renoir painting other paintings in it, the most famous of which is a well-known painting that is considered one of his creative icons, which is the painting “Lunch on the Boats”.
The painting was bought in the same year as it was painted in 1881, by an art dealer named Paul Rauel, for 1,500 francs, after which it was first shown to the public at the Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in the spring of 1882.
