| Auguste Renoir's Young Girls at the Piano | |
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Origin |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
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Type |
Painting |
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Effects |
Captures the sentimental feelings of joyous or mundane times |
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Downsides |
Weakens cloth until it unravels away |
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Activation |
Placing in an open space |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
July 15, 2006 |
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Origin[]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style, especially feminine sensuality. Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. A prolific artist, he created several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently reproduced works in the history of art.
In the late 1860s, by painting light and water en plein air (outdoors), he and his friend Claude Monet discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them, an effect known today as diffuse reflection. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet worked side-by-side, depicting the same scenes (La Grenouillère, 1869). Their works, painted continually on site rather than in a studio forum with vivid colors, brought uproar to the artistic community as an experimental folly.
By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women. It was a trip to Italy in 1881 when he saw works by Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path. For the next several years he painted in a more severe style in an attempt to return to classicism. For the next several years he painted in a more severe style in an attempt to return to classicism. To dissolve outlines, as in his earlier work, he returned to thinly brushed color. From this period onward he concentrated on monumental nudes and domestic scenes.
Effects[]
Will show impressionistic images of one’s memories and imagination. Loves to hone upon happy times or everyday occurrences that bring fondness when looked at, even forgotten moments. Switches to another image when the onlooker has felt rejuvenated to maintain attention. Activation is within an open space, which can be outdoors or when hung on a wall by itself. The continual joy brought entices one to linger and set their gaze squarely on the subject. Meanwhile, they fail to notice their threads slowly starting to unwind. Stay too long and one will find themselves suddenly unclothed with very little covering.