The Gardens at Giverney
Posted on 03/04/2017 3:27:54 PM PST by NYer
In 1915, a few years after the invention of the movie camera, a young actor born in Russia, by the name Sacha Guitry, captured some of the greatest French artists and authors on film. Among others, he included Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in his first film: a silent, 22 minute long film, called Ceux de Chez Nous (“those of our house”). Here, we wanted to share three short videos, featuring Rodin, Monet and Renoir working at their workshops, painting and sculpting.
CLADE MONET
VIDEO: Claude Monet - Filmed Painting Outdoors (1915)
The Gardens at Giverney
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Filmed Painting at Home (1919)
Luncheon of the Boating Party
AUGUSTE RODIN
Auguste Rodin Filmed Sculpting in his Studio 1915
The Thinket
I’ve always been fascinated by the 19th century, particularly the art and literature. These were certainly three of the masters. The impressionists in particular strove to capture the changing qualities of light as it played over the physical world...fascinating to think what they must have thought of being captured in motion pictures. Thanks for the post :-)
Beautiful! Had no idea these clips existed. Thanks for posting.
Those were fascinating to see. Thank you!
Terrific! thanks for posting these.
I have always loved the impressionists.
Man, they did a LOT of SMOKING back then! hahaha
For anyone interested in one of the great printmakers of that era, the Phillips Collection in downtown Washington DC now has a fabulous, extensive exhibit of Toulouse-Lautrec, until April 30. It is so worth the visit.
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Illustrates the Belle Époque February 4 - April 30, 2017
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
1600 21st Street NW Washington DC
America's First Museum of Modern Art
Had no idea of Renoir’s crippled hands.
I had read about that.
And here is one of my many adored Bernini sculptures, Apollo and Daphne:
Now you've done it. Here we go. Except for Rodin's hands and feet thing.
And then there was Michaelangelo's David, I guess just OK. Or then again the Pieta was So..so.
It is nice that everyone can be a critic. ;0)
Did you see the length of Monet’s ash!
Michaelangelo had serious proportion issues. Also, his depictions of the female nude were like men with breasts just sort of stuck on like coconuts. He was a great painter and designer, no doubt. But Bernini was sublime. He did the statues atop the curved arcades in the Vatican plaza, and most especially the large canopy over the altar inside the Vatican, the thing with the four columns that look like DNA strands. The detail on those columns is incredible, timeless.
I did see that -- amazing how people used to do that, have a ciggie hanging off their lip while working. It was a fairly common thing back in the day. They were all blowing smoke in each other's faces and it apparently wasn't considered rude. I was wondering if any of the painters ever set their oil paints or turpentine on fire with a stray tobacco ember! Couldn't help but remember my first trip to France and smelling the horrible foul odor of Gauloises cigarettes.
In the Renoir video, I loved how Renoir would rare back and squint to check how his painting might look from a distance. He was so old, but still so vital!
They were just wonderful little clips!
Wonderful! Thanks for this.
I just watched a good movie about Renoir. It has to be rented but in a few months it will probably be on Netflix.
Remarkable that such great artists were contemporaries.
Renoir was remarkable.
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