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| Pierre Auguste Renoir |
| The Luncheon of the Boating Party |
| With " Luncheon of the Boating Party", Renoir depicts the summer of 1880, an exuberant postwar time when social constraints were loosening, Paris was healing, and Parisians were bursting with a desire for pleasure. In Fact many of Renoir's paintings would constantly focus on the subject. |
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| Edgar Degas |
| Ballet Rehearsal on Stage |
Degas painted theater scenes, nudes, the racetrack, and the occasional portrait, but above all ballet dancers-especially in rehearsal.
Degas loved to paint ballerinas. But, he broke with tradition by showing the dancers practicing instead of performing. This unglamorous portrayal of these popular subjects was the cause of much ridicule toward Degas
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| Paul Gauguin Reproductions |
| Self Portrait |
Gauguin painted many self-portraits, but few are as enigmatic as this one. It was part of the decoration that Gauguin and his colleague Meyer de Haan created for the dining room of the inn in Le Pouldu.
Viewing the reproduction in details you will see how the canvas structure peeps out here and there among the vivid colors, thus resembling Gauguin's painting style. |
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