Renoir used volume and texture to conjure intimacyfrom social intimacy among family and friends to the eroticThe filmmaker Jean Renoir son of Impressionist painter PierreAuguste Renoir described how his father ampampquotlooked at flowers women and clouds in the sky as other men touch and caress.ampampquot Impressionism is generally conceived of as purely visual an optical exploration of lightdappled surfaces and shifting colors. Renoir Intimacy instead focuses on the central role of tactile sensations in Renoirs canvases.In all the different phases of his long career working in a variety of genres including group scenes portraits nudes still lifes and landscapes Renoir powerfully evoked the sense of touch. Renoir Intimacy reveals the ways Renoir made use of the tactile qualities of volume material and texture as a vehicle to depict intimacy in its different formsfrom social intimacy among family and friends to the eroticand how that imagery is viscerally connected to the sensuality of the artists brushstroke and the physical surfaces of his paintings.