Sasha Singelton

Art Appreciation 1301

11, October 2021

*Professors Name*
 Dance at Bougival and Still Life with Three Puppies Compare and Contrast

Pierre-Auguste Renior was a French Impressionist painter, best known for his radiant and

intimate paintings. Renior was noted for the way his lines came together within his paintings and

his brilliance of color schemes.” Unlike other impressionists he was as much interested in

painting the single human figure or family group portraits as he was in landscapes…” ( Funk &

Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, p. 1). As exhibited within his painting Dance at Bougival

which was a painting of couple dancing together in an intimate setting with a beautiful landscape

background of trees behind them as well as other people dinning. It is stated that his early work

was influenced by two artists, one being Claude Monet through his treatment of light and the

other being Eugene Delacroix and his treatment of color. Renior used both color and lighting

through his work. Renior was part of the early impressionism era whereas stated above they

focused on vibrant light and saturated colors. It was said that critics faulted impressionist for

their work because it appeared to have an amateurish and unfinished approach to it. The early

impressionist left behind the idea of three-dimensional perspectives and used lighter more vivid

colors than artist before them.

Paul Gaugin was a French impressionist painter, although unlike Renior, Paul was a part

of the post-impressionist era. “Paul Gauguin was the first nineteenth century artist to move away

from naturalism…” (Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, p. 1). Paul’s work involved

a lot of lush coloring and two-three-dimensional art works. Gaugin was a leading in the post-

Impressionist era. The post-Impressionist era was combusted of artist who wanted to move away

from the naturalism of the early impressionist era and focus more on the optics of light within

their images. Gaugin was influenced by several artist and when he painted this specific art work ,

Still Life with Three Puppies, he was at the time living in Brittany among a group of
experimental painters. In this particular painting instead of placing the focal point on to one

single aspect he uses a diagonal approach to place the focus on three different aspects of work

such as the three puppies, the fruit, and the three stools (goblets) that are all pictured within the

painting.

When looking into to comparing the art works there are a few things that are notable and

worth mentioning. One being the focus point of both the images and the messages that the artist

are the to portray through their work. In Renior’s work he focuses on people and landscapes and

has a more intimate approach to his artwork as to when focusing on Gaugin’s work the focal

point is more so all over the place being that it focus’s on three different aspects. Also, in

Gaugin’s work there is so landscape and no intimate aspect noted. Something that the photos

care are their painters use of bold outlining in their images but differ in the sense that one is

exhibiting humans and the other one is exhibiting animals. It can be also noted that both

paintings give of a clear hint of the environment. That is said that within Renior’s photo the

viewer gets to see a couple dancing and enjoying each other company at what seems to be a

formal outside dinner or event, due to the other guest being setting within the beautiful landscape

of trees behind the couple in the painting.

When it comes to the different time periods Impressionism early and post is that early

impressionism is the art movement which began in the 19th century in France. Post

impressionism is the art movement that took a rebellious sense against the original

impressionism period. Impressionism was characterized by the uses of vibrant colors and really

had no outline or structure to its work it was more of free hand of strokes. Whereas post

impressionism was an array of different artist varying in several different aspects all together, it
was a combination of different styles all together under an umbrella known as the post

impressionism era.
 Work Cited Page

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Still Life with Three Puppies By Paul Gaugin

Dance at Bougival by Peirre-Auguste Renior