Renoir's portraits; While his impressionist colleagues painted landscapes and picnickers, Pierre Auguste Renoir portrayed his family, friends and socialites of his day. Now the Art Institute of Chicago has gathered 70 of those idealized portraits for an ambitious show opening day.(VARIETY)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | October 21, 1997| | Copyright

Opinions about the immensely popular paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been divided since he started exhibiting them in Paris more than a century ago.

When the aspiring artist, then 27, showed a painting of his plump mistress at the official Salon of 1868, a mischievous cartoonist ridiculed her as "a nice semisoft cheese out for a stroll." Less than a decade later, the novelist-critic Emile Zola gushed over Renoir's harmonious colors, comparing him to Old Master painters Rubens and Velazquez.

Since Renoir produced nearly 6,000 paintings in a 50-year ...

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