Fleurs dans un Vase - Masterpiece Jigsaw Puzzle
Pierre Auguste Renoir (French 1841-1919)
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Fleurs dans un Vase (from back of puzzle box)
Pierre Auguste Renoir (French 1841-1919)
Impressionism is one of the most widely recognized styles of painting, and certainly of the most enduring in its popularity. The Impressionist movement tool place in France in the late nineteenth century. One of its early galvanizing events occurred in 1863, when the Paris Salon jury rejected three thousand canvases out of the five thousand that were submitted for the exhibition. The subsequent outcry made way for an exhibition of rejected works, the Salon des Refuses, which included works by Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, and Edouard Manet. The public viewed the whole event as a joke, but this assembly of art, which so clearly rebelled against classical methods and the traditional art establishment, brought together some of the artists who would later be known as the Impressionists.

Common Impressionist elements included a redefinition of subject matter, the use of intense color palettes, loose brushstroke techniques, and a fresh interpretation of the effects of light and color. These artists rejected the conventional artistic themes of formal staged images, and instead attempted to capture everyday scenes of nature and daily life. Colors were bold on the canvas as the artists captured movements using unblended brushstrokes in multiple hues. Paintings often illustrated a passing moment by showing transitory light in a scene, capturing the movement of light and shadow. The Impressionists established a new, subjective way of looking at the world that would forever change the study of art.

Pierre Auguste Renoir was one of the most daring and progressive Impressionist artists. Born in Limoges, France, in 1841, he showed an interest and talent in painting at an early age. Renoir apprenticed as a painter of porcelain and when the firm closed, he painted fans, blinds and decorative murals until he could enroll at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1862. There, he soon found the group of artists who would become known as his most talented contemporaries. Renoir first exhibited his paintings in Paris in 1864, but he did not gain recognition until 1874, at the first exhibition of the new Impressionist school.

Renoir mastered the rendering of natural light and reflection, showing the naturalistic implications of Impressionism in all his paintings. He portrays a rare lushness in every detail of his work. From the reflections of a lake to the tiniest creases in a women's skirt, Renoir defines painting as a beautiful craft. Renoir is noted for the harmony of his lines, the brilliance of his color, and the charm of his wide variety of subjects. Fleurs dans un Vase is a representative of the many still lifes of flowers and fruit he painted throughout his career.

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