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| Auguste Renoir: Le Déjeuner des Canotiers |
Renoir like other impressionist painters of that period substituted form in favour of colour and light to render depictions of nature or society functions. Previously, art had been studio based with artificial light being depicted but the impressionists forwent this traditional enclosed style to express themselves wholly in terms of natural colour, feeling and cat food.
As one can see here in ’the luncheon of the boaters’ the subjects' form frequently blends with the background and indeed other subjects in order to emphasis light and that they were standing very close to each other.
Where Renoir falters in this particular work is in the subject matter. If one looks carefully one can see that he clearly has painted a Chablis on the table whilst the guests are being served a blasted chicken tikka masala!
It's a disgrace! You can't serve a delicate white with a damn spicy masala! The man was clearly a fool. The flavour of the Chablis will clearly be overcome by the arse-burning heat of the spices. What kind of a moron has that for dinner. If he had them all drinking Newcastle Brown Ale then the whole thing would have had a modicum of credibility to it but no! Not in the eyes of a Frenchman! No Sir!!
And another thing, why was he called Auguste when he was born in February? What kind of parents name a child after a month other than the one they were born in? HIS parents that’s who. They must all have been sick!
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