To portray pleasure is to invite the critics’ wrath. It is not serious stuff, the leisure life, and to paint it seems to suggest a certain lack of sobriety. Nowhere in recent memory have these ...

A group of Renoir “haters” protested in front of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts the other day.[1] The general thrust of the protest it seems was, simply, that “Renoir Sucks At Painting.” There are many ...

In director Gilles Bourdos' biopic Renoir, Christa Theret plays Andree Heuschling, who served as a muse for both the aging Impressionist master and his young filmmaker son. The French painter Renoir, ...

In Renoir, a languorous look at the last days of the storied painter, we get a view of the artist at odds with a blue-haired lady's notion of her favorite impressionist. It's a pivotal moment of ...

A group of haters of Pierre-Auguste Renoir gathered yesterday outside the gates of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to declare publicly their utter contempt for the work of the renowned Impressionist ...

Even before protesters lined up outside Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts this week, toting signs denouncing Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir for “sucking at painting,” Instagrammer Genevieve ...

The signs read: "Take 'em down! Renoir sucks!" and "We're not iconoclasts[;] Renoir just sucks at painting!" "I hate Renoir because he is the most overrated artist east, west, north and south of the ...

It must be impossible to look at a painting for which we feel some special delight and not imagine how it was made. Was “American Gothic” meant to be taken seriously or satirically? What memories must ...

A group of protesters have gathered in Boston with an unlikely rallying cry: "Renoir sucks at painting!". Holding placards with slogans like, "We're not iconoclasts, Renoir just sucks", and "God hates ...