Two Sisters Where the Animals Live
_{from the “classic series”}

Digital Fine Art composite by F.A. Moore, July 4, 2010
Dimensions: 7019 × 5100 px @280ppi
Medium: Photoshop for composite and digital brush work.

Technical: Composite includes scan of artist’s original 1996 oil on canvas landscape, and a public domain image of Renoir’s “The Two Sisters (On The Terrace)”. Duck and rabbit painted from reference photos. Renoir’s subjects and barrel painted below and to the right of his finish line.

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2010-07-07 Two Sisters Where the Animals Live in Digital Brushstrokes

Pierre-Auguste Renoir played an integral role in the first impressionist exhibition in Paris, in 1874. His six paintings in the show won him his initial acclaim.

Renoir was a student of the masters. Starting out painting fine china in his home town of Limoges, France, he enrolled in art school at around twenty and visited the Louvre to study the masters. It is said that he often didn’t have money to buy paint. He traveled to Algeria, Madrid, Florence, and Rome to see works of Delacrois, Velázquez, Titan, and Raphael, respectively.

The artist changed styles a few times— from impressionist to classicism to thinly painted color, influenced by various artists along the way. ref

Two Sisters, [On the Terrace], an oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago, was painted in 1881, just before Renoir took a turn toward classicism, after a trip to Italy and seeing the Renaissance masters, notably, Raphael. The work was shown in 1882 at the seventh Impressionist exhibition. It is set on a terrace of the Restaurant Fournaise, in the village of Chatou, on the Seine. ref

In “Two Sisters Where the Animals Live”, I’ve set the subjects of the Renoir work into a scan of my 1996 impressionist style oil painting, Where the Animals Live. The girls seemed at home, here; yet, it should be apparent that I have embellished the scene with accessories and other story devices. I did not hesitate to over-paint and add to the Renoir copy, where needed. See what you can find.

^{Renoir’s “The Two Sisters (On the Terrace)”}

^{Where the Animals Live", 1996}

DETAIL

^{Bunny and Donald, 50% scale (click image)}

^{child’s dress 100% scale (click image)}

^{trunk with yarn dish, 50% scale (click image)}