Big Girls in Art: Renoir
By FrancescaFrancesca feels safe, this time, in assuming that the subject of this painting, “Woman with a Parasol” by Pierre Auguste Renoir is, in fact, a woman. And what a beautiful one at that!
(A poster print of this painting is available here.)
Francesca asks:
What is this woman thinking about?
And, while the woman is thinking whatever she is thinking, how long will it be before she realizes that the little child is about to run off to Cincinnati?
March 26th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I don’t trust that smile. Perhaps she is secretly a sorceress and has summoned up the darkness which is about to consume the small, adorable, but no doubt annoying child.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I think she’s just happy to have a quiet moment - that child looks near the beginning of his terrible two’s!
March 29th, 2008 at 11:13 am
[…] Francesca… What is this woman thinking about? […]
March 29th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
This is a big girl?
March 31st, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I quite like this recurring feature…
I am an amateur photographer and love the history of the medium. I was just reading and came across this image and immediately thought of your blog.
The image is “On the Banks of the Marne” by Henri Cartier-Bresson. I love it because it shows some big girls out in the world and having fun… it feels like something we don’t see enough in art or photography.
http://www.afterimagegallery.com/bressonmarne.htm