Currently Hanging: God Hates Renoir? That's Funny, So Do I.

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 t