Renoir's True Colors

The Art Institute has an interesting exhibit right now.  Renoir's True Colors demonstrates how the conservationists discovered that the background colors in a Renoir painting are not what they were originally.  The painting is displayed alongside a computer-generated image of what they think the original looked like.  Fascinating!

Friday Featured Art: Dance at Bougival

When I was a sophomore in high school, I took a humanities class that I really loved. One of our assignments was to copy a famous painting in watercolor. The one that I chose was a detail of Renoir's Dance at Bougival. (It started out OK, but then I kind of lost my sense of perspective...) Since then I have really liked this painting. I loved seeing it when I visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2002.


Thanks, Heather & Andy for letting me visit!