The Movement to Remove Renoir From Museums

I can't give him clicks. Renoir has created some of the finest masterpieces. This guy is looking for attention.

The 'Movement' is ridiculous, but if museums were to unload their collections of their treacly Renoirs (and surely 97% in museum collections are just that, at best), I wouldn't shed a tear.

'Prize collection of Renoirs', 'Impressionist collection around core works of Renoir', 'famous Renoir'... not descriptions of rooms full of painting that do anything more than quicken my pace. I'm an art historian; I know his place in art, but beyond knowing that, his works are not any more interesting to me than Bougueareau's frolicking babies and bathing beauties.

I'm inviting you to come over and look at my Renoor.

What a sap!

A Renoir, in Cocoa Beach? That's disgusting!

I agree

He is right. Too many are out at the Barnes. Of the pinky fleshy type. They are distracting. There are some masterpieces but the rest is crap. Especially in that yellowish tinted light of the Barnes.

We need to make room for all the Thomas Kinkade Memorial Gallery.

I could see how Renoir might not be your thing but a serious art critic would never lobby for the removal of Renoir from any exhibit. Go ahead. Remove them. You'll have buyers for each one. They'll be sold out, at exorbitant prices, in 5 minutes.

Aren't the criticisms directed toward his later work?

I wouldn't mind owning this...

I've never cared for them, but good luck getting the Barnes to remove them.

R2- ALL museums should remove most conceptual art- most of which is rubbish. It allows people with NO talent the ability to say- I'm a CONCEPTUAL artist.

I’m putting in my request for this, I’ve always found her ennui matched mine.

I’ve always hated Renoir, all those fat, insipid women we’re expected to find beautiful.

He was a sentimentalist of the lowest order, the Hallmark card artist of his day.

Six unwashed people is a movement?

I recall even as a kid having this instinctual feeling that his stuff sucked ass, but I chalked it up to adults simply knowing better. On the other hand, the works of Degas struck me like lightning even back then.

Barnes built a special museum just to showcase a collection made up largely of Renoir pieces. They're not removing SHIT!

“She’s a real Renoir” — pretty at a distance, disappointing up close.

R18 That's a Monet, you virgin!

I don't particularly care for Renoir but I can understand arguments that he is a great painter. This can hardly be a serious "movement". What a bunch of Hipster Nazi Marys!

[quote]Aurora Greenway

I pictured Bea Arthur as I read the book.

Is he from the William Shakespeare is a racist group?

Isn’t this like the Birds Aren’t Real “movement?”

I think the last Renoir that went up for sale went for about 100 million dollars. I'm not sure but I think it went for something like that.

Art has been going downhill since Vermeer died.

"Art is what you can get away with."

I am not a fan, especially, but I know his place, his work, his context and his talent. My personal taste is just that.

But of course my understanding of Geller's "movement" is that it is making a point (of some kind) that, for me, is dotted-line-Dadaist and campy.

I question much more seriously the enormous amount of exhibit space granted to the rubbled deconstructions of mid- and late-20th-c. Germans. But I wouldn't presume to remove them.

Good, more room for ME

We need a Hunter Biden exhibit. LOL

r10 is one of my favorite paintings.

I can see his point re this smeary painting “Two Young Girls at the Piano” and it’s at The Met!

He essentially produced 19th Century BBW porn.

Ummm if theyre giving the paintings away I’ll take ‘em

One of my favorite mean old women preferred Mary Cassatt and said Renoir’s subjects were too ugly to fit into good frames.

@r33, Yeah, I'll take a $100 Renoir

Mary Cassatt is no better than Renoir. Blobby, sentimental.

R36 Name an Impressionist who wasn't sentimental.

Monet’s cathedrals? Manet?

I definitely love Childe Hassam’s Allies Day May 1917. I don’t know if it’s sentimental or patriotic.

Of course, they won’t remove the Renoirs from the Barnes. The hanging is stipulated in his will and cannot be changed. But many of them are lame and kitschy and a real distraction from the gorgeous Cézannes etc.

R24, his record price at auction is $78.1M in 1990, "for the canvas Au Moulin de la Galette (1876) at Sotheby's New York in 1990 [$184.3M inflation adjusted].

He was too prolific though, and as long as there are women of a certain age who wear scarves to museum exhibitions, there is a market for his workaday output of Renoirish women in bustles and bonnets and rosy-cheeked children. You can pick up one of the better sort of this low-end work for $200K-300K. Here's one coming for sale this week at Freeman's auction in Philadelphia.

Is his work anything that AI couldn't do?

^ You could also just take a picture too 🙄

Some morons are afflicted with the TMTOTH Syndrome.

I like Rocco's personal style. I think he's grown into, and has let his hair grow into, handsomeness.

However, regarding Rocco's art, fellow amateur GW Bush has him beat by a mile!

Rocco Renoir?

R41 Well, ok, that is pretty awful.

The Madonna’s First Child, R46. They are an artist and they are going to be world famous as soon as Madge drops dead. Imagine all the coverage that artist could afford!

I’ll take a couple