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Of all the Impressionist painters, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, alchemist of elegance, had the humblest beginnings.
The harsh social vision of Acrobats makes one wonder why Renoir's critical reputation has fared so badly in recent years, particularly at the hands of such leftist critics as T.J.
In the most complex of Degas' photographs, his great dual portrait of the painter Renoir and the poet Stéphane Mallarmé (Museum of Modern Art, New York), Renoir's head is posed dead center in the composition, with the vertical of the mirror frame bisecting his head.
Only Linda Nochlin (whose contribution to the catalog of the Chicago show is an overview of Impressionist portraiture with almost nothing on Renoir) used the Art in America occasion to say something serious and illuminating about Renoir's art, noting that Renoir's men--in such idylls as Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) and Dance at Bougival (1883) (both great paintings, which blur the distinction between portrait and genre painting, are in the Chicago show)--offer a masculine ideal counter to the male predators and businessmen of Degas and Manet: "Tough and tender at once," these men "are luscious, peachy-skinned and downy-haired, with heavy-lidded eyes and yearning red mouths."
Among the Impressionists and their followers represented here are Renoir, Pissarro, Monet, Cézanne, and Van Gogh.