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Pierre Auguste Renoir The historical biography written by Mike Venezia, Pierre Auguste Renoir, tells a story of both a very famous style of art and of the artist that invented the style. Pierre was interested in art during childhood; and at age thirteen, he began a job in a workshop where he painted decorations on china plates and vases. Later, he joined the Charles Gleyre studio to learn to paint like the masters. This type of painting was the current style and was most likely to be accepted by the salon, a yearly official art show. Pierre did not care for this style so he and a friend, Claude Monet, began to paint outdoors. They wanted to paint everyday life; they didn’t want to paint just simple portraits. His art was not at first accepted, but later he gained popularity. Throughout the novel, the author was successful in teaching the reader about an important time in art history, yet he did not use a formal word choice and he failed to develop many characters mentioned in the essay.
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