{"id":5499,"date":"2015-10-09T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2015-11-26T23:10:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T04:10:44","slug":"god-hates-renoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/god-hates-renoir\/","title":{"rendered":"God Hates Renoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to laugh when I read this article<\/a> in the Independent.  The story is about the group calling themselves Renoir Sucks<\/strong> protesting in front of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Renoir Sucks’<\/strong> main tenant is, well, that Renoir sucks. The group maintains that they are tired of the ‘irredeemable treacle of Pierre-Auguste Renoir<\/a> diluting the collection.’ They are calling for the resignation of the Museum’s director for ‘curatorial failing.’ They further maintain that the display of Renoir’s work “amounts to an act of aesthetic terrorism.’ One Renoir Sucks member declaimed that he resents being ‘exposed to Renoir’s deformed pink fuzzy women and scary looking babies.’<\/p>\n

One group member carried a placard exclaiming God Hates Renoir!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Diana<\/a>
Diana the Huntress by Renoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Poor Renoir.   Renoir was a childhood favorite who inspired me to be an artist<\/a>. He created many wonderful paintings, but I have to admit they have point. Cleveland has a few of his masterpieces but they have an inordinate number of later works that I pass by without a glance.<\/p>\n

Sometime during mid-life Renoir questioned his earlier Impressionist work. His late output is filled with classical borrowings disfigured with murky glazes. The colors are dirty and ‘fuzzy.’ The drawing is weak, which is all the more glaring because that was his own criticism–the Impressionists lacked firm drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to laugh when I read this article in the Independent.  The story is about the group calling themselves Renoir Sucks protesting in front of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Renoir Sucks’ main tenant is, well, that Renoir sucks. The group maintains that they are tired of the ‘irredeemable treacle of Pierre-Auguste Renoir diluting the collection.’ They are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[251,17,5,1],"tags":[270,8,288,287],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-art-museum","category-artists","category-uncategorized","tag-art-museum","tag-artists-2","tag-boston-museum-of-fine-art","tag-impressionism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/diana.jpg?fit=463%2C698&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/thumbs-up-thumbs-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":5499,"position":0},"title":"Thumbs-up: van Ruisdael; Thumbs-down: Renoir","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve loved art as far back as I can remember.\u00a0 During the summer before First Grade we moved to a farm, and while exploring the barn loft (true story), I was thrilled to discover a bunch of painting gear\u2014half-empty paint cans, rags, and stiff brushes.\u00a0 I loved it!\u00a0 I loved\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art Museums"","block_context":{"text":"Art Museums","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/art-museum\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":896,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/book-thief\/","url_meta":{"origin":5499,"position":1},"title":"Book Thief","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0In the summer before third grade, we moved to a small town far from Dayton. \u00a0The ramshackle house we rented was across the street from the public library. \u00a0With its pink-marble columns, the library seemed to exist in another world. \u00a0I began spending all of my free time there.\u00a0\u00a0 My\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "anecdotes"","block_context":{"text":"anecdotes","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3718,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/visit-to-the-met\/","url_meta":{"origin":5499,"position":2},"title":"Visit to the Met","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"June 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"My daughter Jane and son Keith accompanied me to the Metropolitan Museum of Art the other day. \u00a0Next to the Louvre, the Met is my favorite museum. 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