Yellow and blue, the dream of Renoir's impression at that moment, a first manifestation of modern consciousness

Renoir's Young Woman Seated in a Rowboat is unknown

Renoir's dreams are yellow and blue, blue and yellow reversed, and when we use such rhetoric to describe Renoir's paintings, we may encounter the same feelings as seeing his painting Young Woman Seated in a Rowboat.

Personally, Renoir spent only a few moments in Impressionism before breaking away and continuing to paint his favorite figures.

In today's Renoir Impressionist painting, we can see the most basic dream of Impressionism. The Impressionists abstracted not only landscapes and people, they even abstracted colors. It is said that in the French Barbizon School we can find the earliest examples of the misuse of color, and it was from that impressionist Manet and Monet that they got inspiration.

In the dream of the Renoir River today, we see one of the best examples of the Impressionists' use of contrasting colors to present the effects of light and shadow. We can see that in this painting, there are three basic colors, yellow, white and blue. Even if there is some green, it is the kind of green that mixes yellow and green.

Yellow surface light, blue surface light shadow. In this painting we see Renoir rendering the river, trees and grass in the white between yellow and blue. In this painting, color plays both the role of emotion and composition. The composition is to clarify the direction of our imagination, and the contrast of colors is renoir's attempt to use Impressionist techniques to record the light and shadow of that moment.

The name Impressionism is a really good name, which completely and purely reflects the essence of this school of painting. Impressionism does not pursue the effect of the picture like the academic school, it pursues the reflection and reaction of our hearts to the whole world, and sometimes the painter's reaction becomes a dream, and this dream happens to be the earliest and first embodiment of our modern consciousness.