An Instagram account launched a tirade against the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir who they believe to be a terrible artist. They want Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to remove the French Artist’s paintings. The group in charge of the account has gone to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to protest. In fact, they have gone as far as saying that they want all museums that feature the Renoir’s paintings to remove them immediately.
On Monday, the members of the Renoir Sucks at Painting movement held signs that read, “Take ’em down! Renoir Sucks,” “ReNOir,” and “God Hates Renoir.” They gathered at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts with signs to persuade the museum officials to remove Renoir’s paintings such as the renowned Dance at Boufival, 1883 for good.
When media outlets inquired about Max Gellar, the head of the group, and specifically why he hates the paintings so much, he replied, “Why do so many people think he’s good? Have you looked at his paintings?
He believes that Renoir’sdepiction of trees look like scribbles and 
lines when in reality trees are far from that; they are beautiful. Even though Renoir’s paintings are regarded as great works of art and decorate museums the world over, a closer inspection of his work reveals that to be untrue said Gellar.
Geller’s hatred of the French artist’s work of art prompted him to make an Instagram account aptly called Renoir Sucks at Painting. If you visit his account, Gellar has taken close up snapshots of the artist’s paintings to highlight its flaws. He has criticized the paintings in the comments and has posed with Renoir’s paintings, appearing angry with the artist. Where did Geller’s hatred for Renoir spawn from?
When Gellar went to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, he came across various works of Renoir and he was less than impressed at what he saw. He began to call them, “empty calorie-laden steaming piles.”
His Instagram account has amassed over 2,400 followers who seem to share his disgust for Renoir’s paintings. One person who is not impressed with Geller’s so called movement to ban Renoir’s work from museums is the artist’s great-great-granddaughter, Genevieve Renoir.
She wrote under one photo, “When your great-great-grandfather paints anything worth $78.1m dollars … then you can criticize. In the meantime, it is safe to say that the free market has spoken and Renoir did not suck at painting.”
Of course, Gellar had to respond so he turned her comment into a post of its own. He retorted by writing below it, “I think that is one of the most absurd and insane arguments for anything, the idea that we should let the free market dictate quality.”
He compared Renoir’s paintings to climate change, prison, settler colonialism, slavery, TV commercials, and the destruction of the habitats of sea otters saying that “paintings have been unleashed upon us by the free market,” meaning they had no control of being exposed to it.
He wants Museums to hang the paintings of other renowned artists whose paintings have been kept in storage when they deserve to be out in the open for all to admire. Let’s see if Geller’s quest to have museums remove the paintings will be successful or not.
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