More and more people loathe Renoir – Is it time for a revival?(washingtonpost.com)
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More and more people loathe Renoir – Is it time for a revival?
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Renoir hating is one of the dumbest hipster trends out there. It is one of those idiotic self-congratulatory instagram movements which are designed to just cause mild shock enough to be followed and perhaps gather the attention of a bored journalist. Of course you have to be very careful that the shock is really mild and it does not affect the interests of anyone powerful, otherwise you won't get into the papers.
I am far from being an expert in art, but I like looking at Renoir paintings, they bring me joy and that pretty much makes them good art.
To call into doubt the artistic skill of Renoir, in today's age when artistic skill is mostly lacking and decreasing fast is stupid and embarrassing. If you think Renoir lacked skill, stop bitching and pain something better. Because when I look at contemporary art I see ever decreasing skills replaced with various stunts, shock value and technology.
Yes, it is true he painted mostly young women. Well perhaps he found young women beautiful. Many of us do you know. If you find something else beautiful perhaps you can create art that shows that and not shit on Renoir's pretty fantasies.
I am far from being an expert in art, but I like looking at Renoir paintings, they bring me joy and that pretty much makes them good art.
To call into doubt the artistic skill of Renoir, in today's age when artistic skill is mostly lacking and decreasing fast is stupid and embarrassing. If you think Renoir lacked skill, stop bitching and pain something better. Because when I look at contemporary art I see ever decreasing skills replaced with various stunts, shock value and technology.
Yes, it is true he painted mostly young women. Well perhaps he found young women beautiful. Many of us do you know. If you find something else beautiful perhaps you can create art that shows that and not shit on Renoir's pretty fantasies.
What? Art today is great and more and more great people are sharing their art with the world. The internet is full of amazing young artists.
Major art museums are in sad state though. They stock the same bland overly abstract art made by some rich donator’s kid made that would’ve pushed boundaries 100 years ago, but today, looks like nothing more than the tired “splash some paint on a canvas” trash. But small hole in the wall museums are full of boundary pushing art, and the internet is overflowing with it.
Major art museums are in sad state though. They stock the same bland overly abstract art made by some rich donator’s kid made that would’ve pushed boundaries 100 years ago, but today, looks like nothing more than the tired “splash some paint on a canvas” trash. But small hole in the wall museums are full of boundary pushing art, and the internet is overflowing with it.
If you are gonna hate, hate Degas, what g*d damn pervert! I can imagine the jolly time Dodgson and Degas had rowing their boats up a brackish stream.
And the "more and more people" seems to be a crank who organized a silly protest on Boston Common, a quote from a contemporary novelist, and a friend labelled "discerning." Visceral disgust at Renoir calls into question your discernment.
> Hating Renoir is...rooted in the feeling that a modern nude should express some convincing quotient of reality.
Renoir is hardly a modern painter. Should we go back and impose the ideals of musique concrete on Mozart?