Intertextual relations in the Renoir family: like father like son?

Abstract

This paper discusses intertextuality, having as an empirical object the relationship between the works of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his son, the filmmaker of French poetic realism, Jean Renoir. The data were preferably obtained in the exhibition Renoir Père et Fils, presented at the Musée D’Orsay, in Paris, from November 6, 2018 to January 27, 2019. After revisiting the biography of each of these exponents of art, eight rooms of D’Orsay’s exhibition are briefly analyzed, highlighting the relationship between father and son, as well as extrapolations of these influences, bringing other artists and writers whose works were articulated in the work of Jean Renoir. Finally, some problematizations are presented.