Renoir, The Grands Boulevards발음듣기
Renoir, The Grands Boulevards
(piano music) Voiceover: I think to us in the early 21st century, this painting looks like quaint old Paris.발음듣기
We see a woman wearing a long Victorian dress with a bow on the back and a pretty hat, strolling with her two children.발음듣기
Voiceover: But to Renoir, and to the people depicted on this boulevard, this would have been incredibly modern.발음듣기
Voiceover: And it's modern not only in terms of what it's depicting, but it's modern in terms of how it's depicted.발음듣기
The idea of representing the city in a series of fleeting brush strokes that seem to catch the moment was a radically new idea.발음듣기
Voiceover: And Renoir was one of a group of artists who are doing this who became known as "The Impressionists," who had, as you said, their first exhibition the year before.발음듣기
So we might think about Monet or Camille Pissarro and Degas, all of them painting different aspects of this new sense of modern life in Paris.발음듣기
Paris was, at this moment, being rebuilt from an old city with narrow winding streets to a city of wide boulevards flooded with light, a planned city lined with shops and cafes and trees, the city of Paris that we know and love today.발음듣기
Voiceover: It was to be the new Imperial City under Napoleon III, and it wasn't just the architecture or the city planning that was being rebuilt.발음듣기
It was just five years earlier that France had been humiliated in their defeat against the Germans, in the Franco-Prussian War.발음듣기
Voiceover: Renoir is interested in giving us a cross-section of what we might see if we walked outside onto the boulevards in Paris.발음듣기
Just to the right, we have two men who are talking who look rather well-dressed, maybe businessmen.발음듣기
Then just to the right of that, that small family led by a mother, and then some figures in a carriage coming our way.발음듣기
Voiceover: The city was a place to view, and one could be a dispassionate onlooker, a flaneur.발음듣기
Voiceover: You said before that the form of the painting was also radically modern, and I think that's also hard for us to understand because to us, it looks quite normal,발음듣기
and we love impressionist paintings like this, but the sketchiness that we see here is radical.발음듣기
Renoir has reduced these trees to big broad brushstrokes in some areas that sweep across and also little dabs of paint in ...발음듣기
We might guess that it might be a London plane tree perhaps, but we don't know precisely what it is.발음듣기
This is not about conveying the specifics of any individual form; rather, representing the momentary.발음듣기
Not what I know about a tree but how I actually perceive and experience that tree with the light coming through it on a bright summer day.발음듣기
Look at the carriage, for instance, with the white horse and the driver and then the couple on the back.발음듣기
It's only the barest notations, and yet it feels as if that horse is moving forward towards us, and we can almost hear its hoof-falls.발음듣기
Voiceover: We talked about this painting as being this remarkably new and modern image in both its form and its content.발음듣기
We have a diagonal line that appears to recede into the background, much like a traditional orthogonal going from the bottom right and moving back up toward the left.발음듣기
Voiceover: Exactly. But we fail to really calculate a measurable distance into space, and that was something that was required of paintings in the 19th century.발음듣기
He is also not quite dissolving the form of the human body as much as, for example, Monet is from exactly this time.발음듣기
Like the "Boulevard des Capucines," for example, the figures are really reduced to just a short few strokes of paint, and you can't see fashion.발음듣기
You can't see gesture. Very characteristic of Renoir is this interest in human beings and their social lives.발음듣기
We're still getting a sense of family groups, of people talking to one another, of sociability.발음듣기
Voiceover: This was a city inhabited, and Renoir has created that social dynamic that populated this new urban experience.발음듣기
Voiceover: Right, but where other artists are interested in depicting the sense of alienation or aloneness of that experience in the city that was really different from the small-knit communities that had made up Paris before that.발음듣기
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