At this time, Renoir was emerging from his periode aige. ((agile period) He turned temporarily to impressionism, but it was to an Impressionism wholly personal and original. With a new richness of color, and a new vivacity in his brush work, he paints thinly over light ground, creating a silken undulant surface, like fine glass delicately agitated by summer breeze. The effect is one of peculiar luminosity, as though, beneath the thin but complex colors, there was light and life. And although the figures are drawn with a fairly precise line – recalling his work of the eighties – we still remember pictures like this one for their color.
The painting has a simple basic structure – a kind of “X” the two diagonals of which contrast in every respect. From the lower right to upper left, a succession of bland colors moves from the hat in the corner, through the white figure and into the distant landscape and sky; this diagonal lies both on the surface; it is made up of fuller colors, purples and coral. It follows the other girl’s dress, from the lower left corner up into the trees, to right. Exquisite color contrasts are set up in all sections
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Dinesh said:
The painting has a simple basic structure – a kind of “X” the two diagonals of which contrast in every respect. From the lower right to upper left, a succession of bland colors moves from the hat in the corner, through the white figure and into the distant landscape and sky; this diagonal lies both on the surface; it is made up of fuller colors, purples and coral. It follows the other girl’s dress, from the lower left corner up into the trees, to right. Exquisite color contrasts are set up in all sections
Dinesh said: