BEAUX DIMANCHES D'ETE (LES)

LE BAL DU MOULIN DE LA GALETTE - SÉRIE "PALETTES"

of JAUBERT Alain

FRANCE, 1997, 00:26:00

Production : ARTE, LA SEPT, MUSEE D'ORSAY, PALETTE PRODUCTIONS
Collection : Musée d'Orsay
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : History of art, Impressionism, Orsay Museum, Painting

Summary :
A dance at the Moulins de la Butte Montmartre, a happy crowd on a Sunday of Summer 1876. Renoir did not need more than that to make his painting a manifesto of the new impressionist painting. But this work is not only a symphony of blues, as the critics of the time underlined with contempt. Deciphering it is difficult at first, but it leads to a lot of discoveries. The painting is more skilful than it looks: Renoir used a range of pigments, close to each others, but resulting in a series of very rich shades, a skilful merging of strokes, he blurred the traditional perspectives, mingled shapes in a complex way, and arranged bodies and looks in an original manner.

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