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The Work of Cot and Renoir
Art 101
(3 Pages | 1204 Words)
The nineteenth century produced a great number of art works from such artists as Pierre
August Cot and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Two major themes in these works include
images fabricated from the real world and mirror images of everyday situations in life.
Cot produced a pair of star struck lovers sharing a moment together in a hidden dugout
enclosed by trees and shrubs while Renior recreated a midsummer’s day with a family
enjoying an outing downtown.
Each of these painting possesses an iconography in which the artist has contrived within
his mind as the main theme to his work. This image is not intended to influence the
viewer’s individual observation, but to embellish the work’s particular symbolism. Cot
was a wonderfully gifted painter who applied remarkable use of proportional status when
creating a two-dimensional painting. The only disadvantage about Cot is that his name is
not well known. When this occurs, an artist and his work lack the media voice it needs to
posses in order to advance among the inflections of those who do the observing.
Therefore personal information is difficult to come across.
His work can be classified under representational art. This form of art uses natural
images that look very much like images in the natural world. His portfolio of artwork has
not received the noteworthy recognition it so deserves. The Storm, created in 1880, is
his only painting to have received praise from the world of art. To showcase another
masterpiece completed by Cot, I chose to compare and contrast the composition of Le
Printemps . This was also created in the same era and was influenced by images
fabricated from the real world. The composition of this painting is quite complete; it
includes actual lines, organic shapes, and the illusion of light.
Le Printemps grants the subconscious mind to drift into a fantasy-like state and the
illusion of mortality merges with the illusion of realism. Cot portrays the young couple on
a swing as his major element. The entire picture is based upon this element and with
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