Renoir was a formalist and was exploring what it meant to be
the son of a great painter, how to understand reality from a visual perspective, and how the position of the camera can be the position of the painter.
Not exact matches
In one
of two excellent booths G.A.M. brings to The Armory Show this year (the other assembles works by Roberto Sebastian Matta and his
sons Gordon Matta - Clark and Pablo Echaurren), the Bologna - based gallery juxtaposes the
great mid-20th century Italian still life innovator Giorgio Morandi with contemporary minimalist Korean
painter Lee Ufan.
Orson Welles described filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894 — 1979),
son of renowned impressionist
painter Pierre - Auguste Renoir, as «the
greatest of all directors.»