“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.” — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir is famous for saying, “One morning, one of us ran out of black; it was the birth of Impressionism.” While it’s true that bright colors are the focus and very little black is used in Impressionism, it is Renoir’s juxtaposition of pastels with deep, almost-black blues that makes him my favorite Impressionist.
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