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Your art history post for today: by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Woman at the Piano, 1875-1876, oil on canvas, 93 × 74 cm (36 9/16 × 29 1/8 inches), The Art Institute of Chicago. #arthistory #oilpainting #painting #impressionism

Info about the artist, from Sotheby’s, “21 Facts About Pierre-Auguste Renoir,” January 26, 2026: ‘Renoir began his artistic career as a porcelain painter… He displayed a quick talent for the work (which principally involved copying floral designs to decorate plates and dish-ware) but found himself eager to expand his horizons. He began frequenting the galleries of the Louvre, where he applied his skills as a copyist to studying the great masterworks…

During the Paris Commune of 1871, he narrowly escaped execution.

Following the collapse of the Second French Empire, a radical revolutionary government known as the Paris Commune briefly controlled the capital. During this period, Renoir was painting on the banks of the Seine when a group of Communards captured him, suspecting that the artist was in fact a spy for the French Army. Rather than immediately drowning the “traitor” in the river, the revolutionaries instead opted to bring Renoir to a nearby town hall to be executed by firing squad. Luckily, Commune leader Raoul Rigault recognized Renoir as the man who had saved his life several years prior (Rigault, near starvation and in need of shelter, had begged help from Renoir, who hid him from Napoleon III’s police for several weeks). Rigault vouched for Renoir, thus sparing his life…

Later in life, he suffered from debilitating rheumatoid arthritis, causing him to make creative adaptations to his painting technique.

Renoir began to develop arthritis around 1892, causing progressive deformities of the hands, ankylosis of his shoulders and elbows, and eventually severely limiting his mobility. Naturally, his condition made it necessary for Renoir to adapt his methods. He relocated to the warmer climes of Cagnes-sur-Mer, near the Mediterranean coast, and took frequent spa treatments. Photographs of the artist reveal his hands wrapped in bandages to prevent skin irritation as he held his paintbrush; a palette was affixed to his wheelchair, allowing it to swivel from side to side; and a system of horizontal cylinders and a crank would enable access to different sections of larger canvases while he remained seated. Despite his deteriorating physical condition, Renoir remained committed to painting, noting: “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”’

Your art history post for today: by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Woman at the Piano, 1875-1876, oil on canvas, 93 × 74 cm (36 9/16 × 29 1/8 inches), The Art Institute of Chicago. #arthistory #oilpainting #painting #impressionism

Info about the artist, from Sotheby’s, “21 Facts About Pierre-Auguste Renoir,” January 26, 2026: ‘Renoir began his artistic career as a porcelain painter… He displayed a quick talent for the work (which principally involved copying floral designs to decorate plates and dish-ware) but found himself eager to expand his horizons. He began frequenting the galleries of the Louvre, where he applied his skills as a copyist to studying the great masterworks…

During the Paris Commune of 1871, he narrowly escaped execution.

Following the collapse of the Second French Empire, a radical revolutionary government known as the Paris Commune briefly controlled the capital. During this period, Renoir was painting on the banks of the Seine when a group of Communards captured him, suspecting that the artist was in fact a spy for the French Army. Rather than immediately drowning the “traitor” in the river, the revolutionaries instead opted to bring Renoir to a nearby town hall to be executed by firing squad. Luckily, Commune leader Raoul Rigault recognized Renoir as the man who had saved his life several years prior (Rigault, near starvation and in need of shelter, had begged help from Renoir, who hid him from Napoleon III’s police for several weeks). Rigault vouched for Renoir, thus sparing his life…

Later in life, he suffered from debilitating rheumatoid arthritis, causing him to make creative adaptations to his painting technique.

Renoir began to develop arthritis around 1892, causing progressive deformities of the hands, ankylosis of his shoulders and elbows, and eventually severely limiting his mobility. Naturally, his condition made it necessary for Renoir to adapt his methods. He relocated to the warmer climes of Cagnes-sur-Mer, near the Mediterranean coast, and took frequent spa treatments. Photographs of the artist reveal his hands wrapped in bandages to prevent skin irritation as he held his paintbrush; a palette was affixed to his wheelchair, allowing it to swivel from side to side; and a system of horizontal cylinders and a crank would enable access to different sections of larger canvases while he remained seated. Despite his deteriorating physical condition, Renoir remained committed to painting, noting: “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”’

Your art history post for today: by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Woman at the Piano, 1875-1876, oil on canvas, 93 × 74 cm (36 9/16 × 29 1/8 inches), The Art Institute of Chicago. #arthistory #oilpainting #painting #impressionism

Info about the artist, from Sotheby’s, “21 Facts About Pierre-Auguste Renoir,” January 26, 2026: ‘Renoir began his artistic career as a porcelain painter… He displayed a quick talent for the work (which principally involved copying floral designs to decorate plates and dish-ware) but found himself eager to expand his horizons. He began frequenting the galleries of the Louvre, where he applied his skills as a copyist to studying the great masterworks…

During the Paris Commune of 1871, he narrowly escaped execution.

Following the collapse of the Second French Empire, a radical revolutionary government known as the Paris Commune briefly controlled the capital. During this period, Renoir was painting on the banks of the Seine when a group of Communards captured him, suspecting that the artist was in fact a spy for the French Army. Rather than immediately drowning the “traitor” in the river, the revolutionaries instead opted to bring Renoir to a nearby town hall to be executed by firing squad. Luckily, Commune leader Raoul Rigault recognized Renoir as the man who had saved his life several years prior (Rigault, near starvation and in need of shelter, had begged help from Renoir, who hid him from Napoleon III’s police for several weeks). Rigault vouched for Renoir, thus sparing his life…

Later in life, he suffered from debilitating rheumatoid arthritis, causing him to make creative adaptations to his painting technique.

Renoir began to develop arthritis around 1892, causing progressive deformities of the hands, ankylosis of his shoulders and elbows, and eventually severely limiting his mobility. Naturally, his condition made it necessary for Renoir to adapt his methods. He relocated to the warmer climes of Cagnes-sur-Mer, near the Mediterranean coast, and took frequent spa treatments. Photographs of the artist reveal his hands wrapped in bandages to prevent skin irritation as he held his paintbrush; a palette was affixed to his wheelchair, allowing it to swivel from side to side; and a system of horizontal cylinders and a crank would enable access to different sections of larger canvases while he remained seated. Despite his deteriorating physical condition, Renoir remained committed to painting, noting: “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”’

Your art history post for today: by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Woman at the Piano, 1875-1876, oil on canvas, 93 × 74 cm (36 9/16 × 29 1/8 inches), The Art Institute of Chicago. #arthistory #oilpainting #painting #impressionism

Info about the artist, from Sotheby’s, “21 Facts About Pierre-Auguste Renoir,” January 26, 2026: ‘Renoir began his artistic career as a porcelain painter… He displayed a quick talent for the work (which principally involved copying floral designs to decorate plates and dish-ware) but found himself eager to expand his horizons. He began frequenting the galleries of the Louvre, where he applied his skills as a copyist to studying the great masterworks…

During the Paris Commune of 1871, he narrowly escaped execution.

Following the collapse of the Second French Empire, a radical revolutionary government known as the Paris Commune briefly controlled the capital. During this period, Renoir was painting on the banks of the Seine when a group of Communards captured him, suspecting that the artist was in fact a spy for the French Army. Rather than immediately drowning the “traitor” in the river, the revolutionaries instead opted to bring Renoir to a nearby town hall to be executed by firing squad. Luckily, Commune leader Raoul Rigault recognized Renoir as the man who had saved his life several years prior (Rigault, near starvation and in need of shelter, had begged help from Renoir, who hid him from Napoleon III’s police for several weeks). Rigault vouched for Renoir, thus sparing his life…

Later in life, he suffered from debilitating rheumatoid arthritis, causing him to make creative adaptations to his painting technique.

Renoir began to develop arthritis around 1892, causing progressive deformities of the hands, ankylosis of his shoulders and elbows, and eventually severely limiting his mobility. Naturally, his condition made it necessary for Renoir to adapt his methods. He relocated to the warmer climes of Cagnes-sur-Mer, near the Mediterranean coast, and took frequent spa treatments. Photographs of the artist reveal his hands wrapped in bandages to prevent skin irritation as he held his paintbrush; a palette was affixed to his wheelchair, allowing it to swivel from side to side; and a system of horizontal cylinders and a crank would enable access to different sections of larger canvases while he remained seated. Despite his deteriorating physical condition, Renoir remained committed to painting, noting: “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”’

Your art history post for today: by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Woman at the Piano, 1875-1876, oil on canvas, 93 × 74 cm (36 9/16 × 29 1/8 inches), The Art Institute of Chicago. #arthistory #oilpainting #painting #impressionism

Info about the artist, from Sotheby’s, “21 Facts About Pierre-Auguste Renoir,” January 26, 2026: ‘Renoir began his artistic career as a porcelain painter… He displayed a quick talent for the work (which principally involved copying floral designs to decorate plates and dish-ware) but found himself eager to expand his horizons. He began frequenting the galleries of the Louvre, where he applied his skills as a copyist to studying the great masterworks…

During the Paris Commune of 1871, he narrowly escaped execution.

Following the collapse of the Second French Empire, a radical revolutionary government known as the Paris Commune briefly controlled the capital. During this period, Renoir was painting on the banks of the Seine when a group of Communards captured him, suspecting that the artist was in fact a spy for the French Army. Rather than immediately drowning the “traitor” in the river, the revolutionaries instead opted to bring Renoir to a nearby town hall to be executed by firing squad. Luckily, Commune leader Raoul Rigault recognized Renoir as the man who had saved his life several years prior (Rigault, near starvation and in need of shelter, had begged help from Renoir, who hid him from Napoleon III’s police for several weeks). Rigault vouched for Renoir, thus sparing his life…

Later in life, he suffered from debilitating rheumatoid arthritis, causing him to make creative adaptations to his painting technique.

Renoir began to develop arthritis around 1892, causing progressive deformities of the hands, ankylosis of his shoulders and elbows, and eventually severely limiting his mobility. Naturally, his condition made it necessary for Renoir to adapt his methods. He relocated to the warmer climes of Cagnes-sur-Mer, near the Mediterranean coast, and took frequent spa treatments. Photographs of the artist reveal his hands wrapped in bandages to prevent skin irritation as he held his paintbrush; a palette was affixed to his wheelchair, allowing it to swivel from side to side; and a system of horizontal cylinders and a crank would enable access to different sections of larger canvases while he remained seated. Despite his deteriorating physical condition, Renoir remained committed to painting, noting: “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”’

Your art history post for today: by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), The Twist, 1964, private collection. I found very little information about this painting, not unusual for works in private collections. One source did say the medium is oil on Masonite. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

From the artist’s obituary in The New York Times, January 20, 1975: ‘Mr. Benton was a painter of enormous talent who believed that only by turning art to meaningful subject matter could America have an art that was not a bald imitation of the symbolic and abstract paintings that were then the vogue in Europe…

With such fellow Midwesterners as John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, Mr. Benton became a practitioner of what became known in the Thirties as “regionalism.” It was a time when the nation concentrated on its own image. The regionalists’ art mirrored what the majority of Americans had in mind— America itself.’

Your art history post for today: by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), The Twist, 1964, private collection. I found very little information about this painting, not unusual for works in private collections. One source did say the medium is oil on Masonite. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

From the artist’s obituary in The New York Times, January 20, 1975: ‘Mr. Benton was a painter of enormous talent who believed that only by turning art to meaningful subject matter could America have an art that was not a bald imitation of the symbolic and abstract paintings that were then the vogue in Europe…

With such fellow Midwesterners as John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, Mr. Benton became a practitioner of what became known in the Thirties as “regionalism.” It was a time when the nation concentrated on its own image. The regionalists’ art mirrored what the majority of Americans had in mind— America itself.’

Your art history post for today: by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), The Twist, 1964, private collection. I found very little information about this painting, not unusual for works in private collections. One source did say the medium is oil on Masonite. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

From the artist’s obituary in The New York Times, January 20, 1975: ‘Mr. Benton was a painter of enormous talent who believed that only by turning art to meaningful subject matter could America have an art that was not a bald imitation of the symbolic and abstract paintings that were then the vogue in Europe…

With such fellow Midwesterners as John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, Mr. Benton became a practitioner of what became known in the Thirties as “regionalism.” It was a time when the nation concentrated on its own image. The regionalists’ art mirrored what the majority of Americans had in mind— America itself.’

Your art history post for today: by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), The Twist, 1964, private collection. I found very little information about this painting, not unusual for works in private collections. One source did say the medium is oil on Masonite. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

From the artist’s obituary in The New York Times, January 20, 1975: ‘Mr. Benton was a painter of enormous talent who believed that only by turning art to meaningful subject matter could America have an art that was not a bald imitation of the symbolic and abstract paintings that were then the vogue in Europe…

With such fellow Midwesterners as John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, Mr. Benton became a practitioner of what became known in the Thirties as “regionalism.” It was a time when the nation concentrated on its own image. The regionalists’ art mirrored what the majority of Americans had in mind— America itself.’

Your art history post for today: by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), The Twist, 1964, private collection. I found very little information about this painting, not unusual for works in private collections. One source did say the medium is oil on Masonite. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

From the artist’s obituary in The New York Times, January 20, 1975: ‘Mr. Benton was a painter of enormous talent who believed that only by turning art to meaningful subject matter could America have an art that was not a bald imitation of the symbolic and abstract paintings that were then the vogue in Europe…

With such fellow Midwesterners as John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, Mr. Benton became a practitioner of what became known in the Thirties as “regionalism.” It was a time when the nation concentrated on its own image. The regionalists’ art mirrored what the majority of Americans had in mind— America itself.’

Your art history post for today: by Colombian artist Fernando Botero (1932-2023), The Musicians, 1979, oil on canvas, 85 ½ x 74 ¾ in. (217.2 x 189.9 cm.), ©️Fernando Botero, photo: Christie’s New York, 9 Nov 2023. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

Your art history post for today: by Colombian artist Fernando Botero (1932-2023), The Musicians, 1979, oil on canvas, 85 ½ x 74 ¾ in. (217.2 x 189.9 cm.), ©️Fernando Botero, photo: Christie’s New York, 9 Nov 2023. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

Your art history post for today: by Colombian artist Fernando Botero (1932-2023), The Musicians, 1979, oil on canvas, 85 ½ x 74 ¾ in. (217.2 x 189.9 cm.), ©️Fernando Botero, photo: Christie’s New York, 9 Nov 2023. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

Your art history post for today: by Colombian artist Fernando Botero (1932-2023), The Musicians, 1979, oil on canvas, 85 ½ x 74 ¾ in. (217.2 x 189.9 cm.), ©️Fernando Botero, photo: Christie’s New York, 9 Nov 2023. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

Your art history post for today: by Colombian artist Fernando Botero (1932-2023), The Musicians, 1979, oil on canvas, 85 ½ x 74 ¾ in. (217.2 x 189.9 cm.), ©️Fernando Botero, photo: Christie’s New York, 9 Nov 2023. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

The Flash Hall at Prastuttle Gheyott

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/the-flash-hall-at-prastuttle-gheyott/

The Flash Hall at Prastuttle Gheyott

https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/the-flash-hall-at-prastuttle-gheyott/