Posts Tagged ‘Renoir’
Composition dogs: part 2
October 12, 2014
A dog at the table: two pictures to compare In this second part of my short series on dogs in composition, lets compare two paintings. Both painted in France in the 1860s, each of these pictures shows figures at a table, and each artist has included a single dog as a key part of the composition. […]
2014 | Blog | Tags: composition, Daumier, dogs, Renoir
Perspective and Emotion (2): The space around an object
May 12, 2013
Above: Auguste Renoir flower painting, oils, 1901 An object in a painting can seem to have such a physical presence that I am stopped in my tracks. Whether a vase of flowers or a pair of shoes, the image may insist that it really is there, a solid presence in its own space. In this second […]