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“Umbrellas”
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
This painting places us in a busy Parisian street close to six principal figures who fill the foreground. A milling crowd behind them almost completely blocks out the boulevard beyond. The top quarter of the picture is mostly filled by a canopy of at least a dozen umbrellas.
Painted in two stages, with a gap of around four years between each stage, it shows the change in Renoir’s art during the 1880s, when he was beginning to move away from Impressionism and looking instead to classical art.
The group on the right, which includes a mother and her two daughters and the woman in profile in the centre, is painted in a characteristically Impressionist manner with delicate feathery touches of rich luminous tones.
On the left of the composition, completed during the second stage, Renoir adopted a more linear style. The figures here, including the young woman and the man standing behind her, have clearly defined outlines, precisely drawn features and a greater sense of three-dimensional form.
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Did something happen to the drawfee discord server? + I was going to ask this there, but since it’s gone, does anybody know how the hell to animate umbrellas? Turning, opening, twirling, etc, All umbrella movements. The whole arsenal (I need it all) but especially opening them. There’s nice reference footage at least, but I’ve never animated from live video reference and I’m much too impatient to figure it all out myself (not before asking the internet first). Peace and love, peace and love, mwah (valentines is soon upon us, that was my kiss of good tithings, love you. Peace.)
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An umbrella can be used as a parasol, but a parasol CANNOT be used as an umbrella.
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We may not have flying cars, but we have flying umbrellas
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