Del Norte Public Library

Briefly recounts the role of Renoir, along with his fellow artists, in the development of a new type of painting known as Impressionism.

"With prompting questions and historical background, an early reader comes face to face with famous works of Impressionist art and is encouraged to identify light and shadow and consider feelings evoked"--

Impressionism, the revolutionary movement born in France in the 1860s and 1870s, was one of the most important breakthroughs in the history of painting. In her lively survey, Phoebe Pool relates the individual Impressionists--Renoir, Monet and Pissarro among them--to their predecessors and their heirs. She shows how they were influenced by artists like Delacroix, Courbet and the painters of the Barbizon school, and how Impressionism engendered the...

Briefly discusses the life and art of the French impressionist and provides commentary on some of his major works