Interpretation of Renoir’s Grandes Biagneuses

Interpretation of Renoir’s Grandes Biagneuses


To speak of Renoir is to speak of color. It is true that all the Impressionists worshipped color and light. In Renoir’s work the use of color merges together like a ecstatic feast, the light takes on material qualities, it foams and sparkles in his pictures. The colors illuminate the surroundings like precious stones illuminate a piece of undisturbed earth. Renoir used brilliant colors in his early works but seems not to have reached full maturity in his paintings till later, in which color becomes luminescent.
Renoir’s early background seems to lead us to the foundation of his craftsmanship. Renoir had to start work at the age of ten to help financially support his family. He worked in a Paris workshop, porcelain painting for which probably gave him a sure eye for the selection and combination of colors. The powerful range of colors and the collective appearance of these colors are greatly rendered in Renoir’s Gran...