Nude Bather Seated by the Sea

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist born in the year 1841. He part of the artists that initiated and popularized impressionist painting. Nude Bather Seated by the Sea is one of his famous impressionist paintings.

The painting featured the unconventional painting styles that had been rejected by enthusiasts of academic painting guidelines of their Renoir’s time. Renoir painted Nude Bather Seated by the Sea in the year 1882. By this time impressionist painting had started to attract attention as Renoir and other like-minded painters had started an exhibition of their artworks. Renoir was famous for his passion for appreciating beauty in his paintings, more particularly female sensuality. Nude Bather Seated by the Sea was part of his endeavors related to that passion. Renoir was part of the team that worked hard to advance their modern and unique painting styles. Their paintings, like Renoir’s Nude Bather Seated by the Sea, went ahead to attract huge acclaim and remain held in high regard even to date.

Nude Bather Seated by the Sea features the characteristic impressionist painting techniques. The painting pays more attention to lighting and contrast as opposed to only paying attention to the images. The image in this painting is however quite eye-catching though. The sensual mood the painting creates is phenomenal. The painting depicts an image of a naked lady by the seaside. There is great balance in light and contrast of the images depicted. The images include the lady, the sea, and the seafront. The colors of these images blend well in this painting which had been the whole essence of impressionist painting advocacy all along. The painting has the characteristic heavy brushstroke which had been synonymous with most impressionist painters. Nude Bather Seated by the Sea is a painting of the nude-painting genre, which is a bit reserved but Renoir was able to put in a way that is touching to almost everyone.

Renoir worked with other like-minded artists like Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley in his impressionist painting career. The need to work together arose out of the rejection of their paintings by the juries of the exhibitions of the time. The salon, a very popular exhibition for young painters at the time rejected their paintings for disregarding the conventional academic painting guidelines of the time. Renoir had also studied art under the tutelage of Charles Gleyre, who would have a huge influence on his painting techniques. Charles Gleyre was quite a popular landscape painter at the time and most young painters who went through him at the time turned out to be impressionist painters.

Renoir had a myriad of impressionist paintings over the course of his painting career. Among his most notable painting pieces include; Two Sisters (On the Terrace) - this painting depicted the images of two sisters, one elder and the other on a little girl. The setting of the painting was a restaurant called Maison Fournaise (House of Fournaise). The elder sister is Jeanne Darlot who would grow up to be an actor, while the identity of the little girl remains unknown.