Культурология. Горелова А.В - 13 стр.

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windows, and kiosks in this view of one of the great metropolitan thoroughfares,
whose activities provided the subject for many Impressionist paintings.
Impressionist artists often worked side by side painting the same view of а
street, а cafe, or а riverbank at the same moment of light and atmosphere, and it
is often only the special sensibility and personal touch of each painter that
makes it possible to tell their works apart.
The sparkling Les Grands Boulevards, of 1875, by Pierre Auguste Renoir
(1841 — 1919) shows how much latitude remained for individuality in treating а
similar subject at the height of the collective phase of the Impressionist
movement. Renoir, the most exciting and active of the group, has not bothered
with details. Не has captured а moment of high excitement as we look across а
roadway from the shadow of the trees to the trotting white horse pulling а
carriage filled with people in blazing sun. Warmth, physical delight and intense
joy of life are the perpetual themes of Renoir. Trained at first as а painter on
porcelain, hе later studied with the academic painter Charles Gleyre and soon
made the acquaintance of the Impressionist group, with whom he exhibited until
1886.
The best painting of the Impressionist highest point is Renoir's Lе Moulin
de la Galette of 1876, depicting а Sunday afternoon in а popular outdoor
dancing cafe on Montmartre. Young couples are gathered at tables under the
trees, or dancing happily through the changing interplay of sunlight and shadow.
Characteristically, there is nо trace of black, even the coats and the shadows turn
to blue. One could scarcely imagine а more complete embodiment of the
fundamental theme of Impressionist painting - the enjoyment of the moment of
light and air. Although he after turned toward а Post-Impressionist style, Renoir
never surpassed the beauty of this picture, which sums up visually the goal hе
once expressed in words: “The earth as the paradise, that is what I want to
paint.”
Make sure you know how to pronounce the following words:
Camille Pissaro [k∂mil pi’særou]
paradise [‘pær∂daiz]
Auguste Renoir [o:gju:st r∂’nwa:]
perpetual [p∂’petƒu∂l]
Post-Impressionist [p∂ustim’preƒnist]
thoroughfare [‘øΛr∂fe∂]
companionship [k∂m’pænj∂nƒip]
acquaintance [∂’kweint∂ns]
Montmartre [m∂n’ma:tr]
boulevard [‘bu:lva:]
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