{"id":24975,"date":"2019-08-27T08:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24975"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:11:47","slug":"someone-of-no-consequence-disses-renoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/27\/someone-of-no-consequence-disses-renoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Of No Consequence Disses Renoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/08\/26\/renoirs-problem-nudes\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Renoir\u2019s Problem Nudes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who doesn\u2019t have a problem with Pierre-Auguste Renoir? A tremendously engaging show that centers on the painter\u2019s prodigious output of female nudes, \u201cRenoir: The Body, the Senses,\u201d at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, sparks a sense of crisis. The reputation of the once exalted, still unshakably canonical, Impressionist has fallen on difficult days. Never mind the affront to latter-day educated tastes of a painting style so sugary that it imperils your mind\u2019s incisors; there\u2019s a more burning issue. The art historian Martha Lucy, writing in the show\u2019s gorgeous catalogue, notes that, \u201cin contemporary discourse,\u201d the name Renoir has \u201ccome to stand for \u2018sexist male artist.\u2019 \u201d Renoir took such presumptuous, slavering joy in looking at naked women\u2014who in his paintings were always creamy or biscuit white, often with strawberry accents, and ideally blond\u2014that, Lucy goes on to argue, the tactility of the later nudes, with brushstrokes like roving fingers, unsettles any kind of gaze, including the male. I\u2019ll endorse that, for what it\u2019s worth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technically, I guess that counts as two people of no consequence.<\/p>\n<p>The writer then goes on to say the nudes of Picasso and Matisse are a breath of fresh air after looking at the Renoir.   So he is also a man of no taste.<\/p>\n<p>(You know what I think of <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/04\/book-report-matisse-by-volkmar-essers-1989-2002\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matisse<\/a>, which I do infrequently and that&#8217;s too much.)<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/340124\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renoir\u2019s Problem Nudes: Who doesn\u2019t have a problem with Pierre-Auguste Renoir? A tremendously engaging show that centers on the painter\u2019s prodigious output of female nudes, \u201cRenoir: The Body, the Senses,\u201d at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, sparks a sense of crisis. The reputation of the once exalted, still unshakably canonical, Impressionist has fallen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24976,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24975\/revisions\/24976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}