FILE: 17_The Bathers_Renoir.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - The Bathers - IMPRESSIONISM

DESCRIPTION: RENOIR. LATE WORK. This is the classical style he adopted in an attempt to achieve acceptance by critics and have his work hang in museums. It is Classical: polished, refined, layered, uses chiarascuro, sculptural/3 dimensional. But it wasn't what earned him his fame after all. The earlier works are what hang in museums today!