Photo taken by Pierre Bonnard, c In black and white, these scenes play out on a loop on a large screen — extracts from some of the best-known and best-loved early films by the French film director Jean Renoir , while, on the surrounding walls, colour luminesces, as the same — or very similar — scenes are frozen, like screen grabs, on the canvases of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir , the impressionist painter.
Jean Renoir in his apartment on Avenue Frochot, Paris, around Photograph, 23 x United States, Bridgeman. And so it goes on for the duration of the exhibition , which fills the galleries along the length of the first floor of the museum: Renoir-father and Renoir-son interspersed and in conversation — repeated motifs, repeated scenery, repeated models.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Portrait of Jean Renoir, Oil on canvas, Private collection. Gabrielle and Jean, Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm. RF Between and , he was the inspiration for about 60 paintings, drawings and pastels, initially with his nanny, Gabrielle Renard, then later alone.
Many of these portraits are on display here, including the somewhat twee Jean Renoir Cousant Jean Renoir sewing , in which he reluctantly sports long, golden curls, which, despite his being teased for at school, he was compelled by his father to retain uncut until the age of seven.
In later life, Jean recalled sitting for this portrait, and how Renard gave him a dress to stitch for his toy camel, which kept him virtually motionless for long stretches of time. Jean en Chasseur Jean as Hunter , Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Two paintings of Renard and Jean capture such intimate domesticity, with one depicting them playing with animal figurines. Two portraits of Renard alone are, for me, some of the most beautiful paintings in the exhibition, glowing with warmth and tenderness, a familiarity perhaps not so present in paintings of less well-known sitters. Filming a scene of Une partie de campagne, , a film by Jean Renoir. Notebooks containing ideas for this work are shown alongside filmed interview clips with Jean and a photograph of father and son, from around , attributed to fellow artist and family friend Pierre Bonnard.
Between and , Jean produced, exhibited and sold ceramics — some of which are on display here — and he later compared the ceramic process to the cinematic, suggesting both involved an element of chance. Jean Renoir. Vase, Earthenware with polychrome decoration over tin-glaze. As well as sitting for him, she also helped the artist in this time of ill health. Catherine Hessling. Photographer unknown.
She was more than just his muse and lead star, however, taking an active role as artistic partner, and with her expressionistic character dominating the screen, especially in Charleston Parade Jean-Marc Bellu Aviateur cabaret 2 as Aviateur cabaret 2. Gilles Bourdos. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Biography Drama History Romance. Rated R for sequences of art-related nudity and brief language. Did you know Edit. Trivia Official submission of France to the Oscars best foreign language film category.
Goofs When Pierre-Auguste walks in on Jean Renoir being bathed, a modern toggle-style light switch is visible on the wall. The toggle switch wasn't invented until , which is a few years after that part of the film.
Earlier light switches were push-button style, and the switch on the wall is also of a modern plastic style that is very much later. Quotes Pierre-Auguste Renoir : You're rather modest for an actress.
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