Renoir Father and Son. Painting and Cinema

Written in French.

The exhibition seeks to explore the fruitful and at times paradoxical dialogue between a father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and a son, Jean Renoir, between two artists, and between painting and cinema. The points of contact between the works of the film director and the painter go beyond influence and transposition. It is as if Jean forged his artistic personality and established his independence as a film director by questioning Renoir's paintings and that of his contemporaries, and more generally the late 19th century. The exhibition takes a new look at his role in the dissemination of his father's works, his relations with the artistic world and his work as a ceramist which he compared to that of cinema, because potters and film directors both have to work with the hand they are dealt.

Exhibition at the musée d'Orsay from November 6th 2018 to January 27th 2019.

French
312 pages

Éditions Flammarion