La artritis reumatoidea modificó la técnica pictórica de Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), cuya creatividad producía una media de 60 cuadros por año.

Aunque desde 1901, cuando tenía los 60 años, sus manos captadas en fotografías mostraban claramente el avance de la enfermedad, Renoir siguió pintando sin detenerse; lo hacía en lienzos más horizontales que verticales porque le era más cómodo, con pinceladas más largas, sin los nacarados, azules y rojos intensos de su época sana y, al final, con los colores entremezclados porque no quería perder tiempo limpiando los pinceles.





Cuando se le hizo difícil sujetar la paleta en la mano, primero la sostenía entre las rodillas y el borde del caballete. Después, pidió que se la fijaran sobre uno de los brazos de la silla de ruedas.

Tampoco podía sostener los pinceles, así que su mujer, su hijo o la modelo tenían que atárselos a las manos.
Cambiaba el pincel con menos frecuencia que antes y se hizo más lento; se ve en algunas de sus pinturas cómo algunos trazos acaban desvanecidos en la tela porque usaba los pinceles hasta agotar el pigmento.





Para cuadros de grandes dimensiones, como su obra 'Las grandes bañistas', ideó un caballete con un sistema de poleas para mover la tela. El lienzo se fijaba a dos tiras de madera que giraban sobre sendos ejes unidos por la cadena de su bicicleta. Mediante una manivela, la tela subía y bajaba.


En algunas obras de la época, pueden verse las marcas de las barras.


Nada detenía a este genio de la pintura.

La prueba está en que unas horas antes de morir a causa de una pulmonía, Auguste Renoir había estado pintando una naturaleza muerta, inspirado en una cesta con manzanas que le había traído su hijo.






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ART and medicine: Disease who modified the pictorial technique of Auguste Renoir





Rheumatoid arthritis modified pictorial technique Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), whose creativity produced an average of 60 frames per year.

Since 1901, when he was age 60, his hands captured in photographs showed clearly the progression of the disease, Renoir continued painting without stopping; made it more horizontal to vertical canvas because he was more comfortable with more long strokes without the nacarados, blue and intense reds of his healthy time and ultimately intermingled because it didn't want to waste time colors cleaning brushes.

When it became difficult to hold the palette in the hand, first held it between the knees and the edge of the stand. Then requested to be fixed on one arm of the wheelchair.

It could not sustain brushes, so his wife, his son or the model had to atár hands.
Changed brush less frequently than before and became slower; seen in some of his paintings how some strokes just vanished in cloth because used brushes until exhausted the pigment.

ART and medicine: Disease who modified the pictorial technique of Auguste Renoir
Monday, 27. December 2010, 00:02

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Rheumatoid arthritis modified pictorial technique Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), whose creativity produced an average of 60 frames per year.

Since 1901, when he was age 60, his hands captured in photographs showed clearly the progression of the disease, Renoir continued painting without stopping; made it more horizontal to vertical canvas because he was more comfortable with more long strokes without the nacarados, blue and intense reds of his healthy time and ultimately intermingled because it didn't want to waste time colors cleaning brushes.


When it became difficult to hold the palette in the hand, first held it between the knees and the edof the stand. Then requested to be fixed on one arm of the wheelchair.

It could not sustain brushes, so his wife, his son or the model had to atár hands.
Changed brush less frequently than before and became slower; seen in some of his paintings how some strokes just vanished in cloth because used brushes until exhausted the pigment.


For boxes of large dimensions, as his work 'The large bathers', devised a stand with a system of pulleys to move the fabric. The canvas was fixed to two strips of wood that revolved on both axes by your bike chain. Using a crank, fabric rose and fell.


Some works of the time, can see the marks of bars.


Nothing stopped this genius of painting.

The test is that a few hours before die from pneumonia, Auguste Renoir had been painting a dead nature, inspired by a basket with apples which had brought his son.