Renoir

[ ren-wahr, ren-wahr; French ruh-nwar ]

noun
  1. Jean [zhahn], /ʒɑ̃/, 1894–1979, French film director and writer.

  2. his father, Pierre Au·guste [pyer oh-gyst], /pyɛr oʊˈgüst/, 1841–1919, French painter.

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How to use Renoir in a sentence

  • A great-granddaughter of Fragonard, she seems to have inherited his talent; Corot and Renoir forcibly appealed to her.

  • There were in all six pictures—a tall glass filled with pale roses, by Renoir; a girl tying up her garter, by Monet.

    A Mere Accident | George Moore
  • It was significant enough when he once said to Renoir, that it took him twenty years to find out that painting was not sculpture.

    Adventures in the Arts | Marsden Hartley
  • Manet saw certainly far less colour than Renoir, for in the Renoir sense he was not a colourist at all.

    Adventures in the Arts | Marsden Hartley
  • In this sense he leads one to Renoir's way of considering nature which was the pleasure in nature for itself.

    Adventures in the Arts | Marsden Hartley

British Dictionary definitions for Renoir

Renoir

/ (ˈrɛnwɑː, French rənwar) /


noun
  1. Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1894–1979, French film director: his films include La grande illusion (1937), La règle du jeu (1939), and Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)

  2. his father, Pierre Auguste (pjɛr oɡyst). 1841–1919, French painter. One of the initiators of impressionism, he broke away from the movement with his later paintings, esp his many nude studies, which are more formal compositions

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