What Can Art Teach Us about Love? or, Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Carrie Wilson
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Carrie Wilson, Aesthetic Realism Consultant and Terrain Gallery Coordinator, speaks on “What Can Art Teach Us about Love?: Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party,” a talk in the groundbreaking series “Aesthetic Realism Shows How Art Answers the Questions of Your Life.”
This talk on Renoir’s 1881 masterpiece, now in the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, is based on this great principle, stated by Eli Siegel, “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”
