Documentary

Renoir: Reviled and Revered

"Beloved Impressionist, influential master or self-indulgent fantasist? You decide."

Pierre-Auguste Renoir is known and loved for his impressionist paintings of Paris. These paintings count among the world’s favourites. Renoir, however, grew tired of this style and changed course. This film, based on the collection of 181 Renoirs at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia,– examines the direction he then took and why it provokes such extreme reactions right up to today. Some claim they are repulsed by Renoir’s later works and some claim they are seduced. What may surprise many is that among the many artists who sought Renoir’s new works out and were clearly highly influenced by them were the two giants of the 20th century – Picasso and Matisse.

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Release Date

December 10, 2016

Status

Released

Original Title

Renoir: Reviled and Revered

Runtime

1h 30min

Budget

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Revenue

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Language

English

Production Companies

Seventh Art Productions

Part of

Exhibition on Screen Collection

Includes: Sunflowers, Young Picasso, Raphael Revealed, Hopper: An American Love Story, Cézanne: Portraits of a Life, Pissarro: Father of Impressionism, Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman, Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition, Tokyo Stories, Easter in Art, The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin, Frida Kahlo, Leonardo: The Works, Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait, Van Gogh & Japan, Degas: Passion for Perfection, David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts, Canaletto & the Art of Venice, Michelangelo: Love and Death, The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism, I, Claude Monet, The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Renoir: Reviled and Revered, Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood, The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them, Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing, Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis, Matisse, Leonardo: From the National Gallery, London