Pierre Auguste Renoir By: Ashita Patel Pierre Auguste Renoir.

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Pierre Auguste Renoir By: Ashita Patel Pierre Auguste Renoir

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Pierre Auguste Renoir

By: Ashita Patel

Pierre Auguste Renoir

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Date & Origin of Birth

•Renoir was born on February 25,1841 in Limoges,France. He was the sixth of seven children of Leonard Renoir and Marguerite Merlet.

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Family Background• Renoir was born into a working

class family. As a boy Renoir worked in a porcelain factory starting a the age of 13. Renoir's father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress. He worked hard throughout his childhood to help out his family.

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Childhood

• At the age of 13 he began painting flowers on dishware at a porcelain factory

• In 1862 he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre (1808-74) and became friends with Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley

• (1869) He and Monet worked together at La Grenouillere, on the Seine ( a famous river in France)

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Art Training

•In 1860, Renoir was admitted as an authorized copier in the Louvre.

•The Louvre is a famous French art museum.

•He first was an apprentice at a porcelain factory he worked at.

•He worked with his friends Monet and Sisley.

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Art Influences

• Renoir influenced many artists because of his great work with oil pastels.

• One of the famous artists he influenced was Pablo Picasso.

• His work at the porcelain factory made him love to draw.

• Then he started to use oil pastels and used that as his primary drawing utensil.

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Break Out-Piece

•Renoir was an impressionist artist, during his lifetime there were also many other impressionist artist.

•Renoir became famous for his painting called “ Girl With the Watering Can”.

•He also became famous for his painting called “The Umbrellas”.

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Famous Artwork

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End of Renoir’s Career

• On December 3,1919 Renoir went to the Louvre to see his old painting.

• While in the city Renoir died because of an heart attack.