Le Moulin de la Galette by Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. His Parents were working class, and his father was a tailor. In 1862, he began to study art under Charles Glyer in Paris. He was also Claude Monets teacher. Monet and Renoir became friends. Both were part of the Impressionist movement. His big break came with the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. His paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated colour. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. Renoir painted Le Moulin de la Galette in 1876. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. The composition is very complicated, based on a diagonal. The light is diffused, filtered through the trees. His friends are regular models for most of the figures in the foreground of the painting. At the center of the painting are two young women (Estelle, the girl in the striped dress, and your sister Jeanne Renoirs model ), they converse with the men sitting at the table. The three men in the right position are painters friends (Lamy, Goeneutte and Georges Rivire). Background, in the left side, the Cuban painter Pedro Vidal dances whit his friend Margot, one very famous model.

The composition is organized around a large diagonal running from the upper right to the lower left corner and in different parallel planes, the foreground, on the right side, the group is focused on the woman with black clothes, who is standing and looking at the young man sitting on the yellow chair. In the background, the left side, a couple is dancing.