Dance At The Moulin De La Galette by Renoir

March 23, 2011 - PRLog -- Dance At The Moulin De La Galette, has been described as the most beautiful picture of the 19th century and are loved by lots of people. It is another one of Renoir’s most famous paintings and also one of the most popular art reproductions.

Renoir delighted in `the people’s Paris’, of which the Moulin de la Galette near the top of Montmartre was a characteristic place of entertainment, and his picture of the Sunday afternoon dance in its acacia-shaded courtyard is one of his happiest compositions. In still-rural Montmartre, the Moulin, called `de la Galette’ from the pancake which was its speciality, had a local clientèle, especially of working girls and their young men together with a sprinkling of artists who, as Renoir did, enjoyed the spectacle and also found unprofessional models. The dapple of light is an Impressionist feature but Renoir after his bout of plein-air landscape at Argenteuil seems especially to have welcomed the opportunity to make human beings, and especially women, the main components of picture. As Manet had done in La Musique aux Tuileries he introduced a number of portraits.

The girl in the striped dress in the middle foreground (as charming of any of Watteau’s court ladies) was said to be Estelle, the sister of Renoir’s model, Jeanne. Another of Renoir’s models, Margot, is seen to the left dancing with the Cuban painter, Cardenas. At the foreground table at the right are the artist’s friends, Frank Lamy, Norbert Goeneutte and Georges Rivière who in the short-lived publication L’Impressionniste extolled the Moulin de la Galette as a page of history, a precious monument of Parisian life depicted with rigorous exactness. Nobody before him had thought of capturing some aspect of daily life in a canvas of such large dimensions.

Renoir painted two other versions of the subject, a small sketch now in the Ordrupgard Museum, near Copenhagen and a painting smaller than the Louvre version in the John Hay Whitney collection. It is a matter of some doubt whether the latter or the Louvre version was painted on the spot. Rivière refers to a large canvas being transported to the scene though it would seem obvious that so complete a work as the picture in the Louvre would in any case have been finished in the studio.

Renoir paintings are regarded among the best within the school of impressionism. He used his brush to delicately paint color to the canvas by thin visible brush strokes dissolving the obvious outlines in favor of free touches of color which makes his subjects to connect together. He worked outdoor and the light and colors in Renoir paintings are vibrant. And because of experience of working outdoors, in 1860s he and Claude Monet found that shadows are not black but reflected the colors around them which now know as diffuse reflection. Renoir believed that artworks should be fun, beautiful and pleasant to look at. His works most definitely emphasized this as he immortalized many a Parisian scene of joy and revelry, as well as pleasant scenes of peace and of course a number of nudes.

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