A group blog of Art History students at The Barstow School.
Progression of Human Form - On the Terrace
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Progression of Human Form Curated by Shahzad Aslam
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, On the Terrace, 1881
Renoir, known
for glorifying female sensuality and femininity represents an impressionist
style painter. For impressionists like Renoir, the beauty of the female form
was accentuated through vibrant colors and less emphasis on line and contour
unlike the romantics and others that came before them. The vibrancy in On the
Terrace is achieved through the separate application of each color of paint
and non-mixing or blending of the paints on the canvas. Furthermore, the work
is characteristic of the Impressionist period, as it set outdoors with an
ordinary mother and daughter as the subject. Additionally, the background and
foreground containing the figures are blended seamlessly together creating a
snapshot, photographic effect. The forms of the females at this time are still
traditional and painted accurately. The differentiating factor in Impressionism
comes from the application of the paint through thin, open brush strokes and
subject matter rather than a reinvention of the human form.
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