Theres an entire Renoir room at Seattle Art Museum as part of the Intimate Impressionism exhibition. You will be forgiven for running from it, screaming.
There's an entire Renoir room at Seattle Art Museum as part of the Intimate Impressionism exhibition. You will be forgiven for running from it, screaming. JG

I was in a charitable mood in 2013, when I called Renoir "wildly uneven"; in 2010 I called him the worst painter in the world.

It is such delicious, easy fun to hate Renoir. (Not the guy, the artist.) He is an extremist of sentimentality. No complex thought or feeling can emerge while looking at his stifling work. To do their part against this frightening force, haters have taken to the streets in Boston, hoisting signs that declare, Westboro Baptist Church-style, that "God Hates Renoir."

Right now at Seattle Art Museum you can play a giggly game of which-is-the-worst Renoir in a roomful of them at Intimate Impressionism, an exhibition of paintings from the National Gallery of Art that are out on tour while the NGA's Impressionism wing is being renovated.

I swear I know this girl from somewhere. OH RIGHT, FROM THAT SONG ABOUT SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE AND UUUUUUGH.
I swear I know this girl from somewhere. OH RIGHT, FROM THAT SONG ABOUT SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE AND UUUUUUGH. JG