What can we see from this painting? I wonder what food they eat. What is wine? Renoir is an artist who likes to describe people around him. He helps painters to be mannequins. His wife Alina Sharigo is painted in the left foreground, playing with a puppy. There are six wine bottles, ten wine glasses, eight men, five women and a dog in the picture. Including businessmen, senior ladies, painters, actresses, writers, critics, seamstresses and salesgirls. (Guess which one is each of their occupations? People of all kinds have formed a brand-new modern Paris society. It shows the change of French social openness from the middle of19th century to the end of19th century: restaurants began to welcome customers from different classes, not just aristocratic men.
Although the name of this painting is "lunch on the ship", one detail is that it doesn't really eat on the deck of the ship. In fact, it is located on the "outdoor balcony" of a restaurant called "Maison Fournaise" on the banks of the Seine. At that time, Parisians often went to Maison Fournaise restaurant, which was also regarded as a supporting service of online celebrity restaurants: guests could choose to rent a boat to swim on the river (just like the night tour of Huangpu River in Shanghai and Pearl River in Guangzhou today).
A few years back in time, 1870, Renoir was 29 years old, his career had not yet emerged, and he was in a state of economic difficulties. He had to visit the pawnshop from time to time in exchange for some cash flow to meet his daily needs. Unable to pay the rent regularly and moved from one attic to another many times. During this period, he chose to follow Monet, another painter at that time, to sketch outdoors and feel the light and color effects in nature. Later, light and shadow became an extremely important painting skill of Renoir. It comes from my hard training when I was young.
Portrait painting has a long period of prosperity in the history of European painting, and the portrait works of impressionist painters are more colorful and "active". Renoir's portrait won the appreciation of the market. Renoir is famous for painting naked women. His love for women's bodies began as early as after the Franco-Prussian War. During the war, he joined the cavalry. Once peace was declared, he immediately put down his carbine and returned to Paris to sit in front of an easel, creating his favorite portrait with a brush.
Between 1880- 188 1 year, he reached the age of no doubt, and finally drew a classic work representing himself: Luncheon at the Boat Party. However, after this painting, Rehnova chose to gradually give up the presentation technique of "focusing on making light and shadow" and tend to be more simple. During this period, the economic level allowed him to travel to Spain, Italy and other countries, and complete the life event of getting married and having children. 189 1 at the age of 50, Rehnova can be regarded as a successful painter. While enjoying the family and happy atmosphere, he continued to draw and drew many charming family sketches. Don't give up hope if you are not forty years old. Rehnova's life began to clear up at the age of forty. Persistence is a protracted war!