Some information about the painters' lives.

Antonio Berni (1907 - 1981)
Nationality: ArgentineMovement: Modern Latin American School
Biography: Antonio Berni was first trained in Buenos Aires before studying under Othon Friesz and Andre Lhote in Paris. He helped form the Argentinean art group, the Grupo de Paris in the 1920’s and also became involved with the Surrealists. His other influences included the work of Georges De Chirico and the Italian 15th century muralists. Concerned with Marxism and the Spanish Civil War, Berni’s later work began to reflect social issues. In order to truly represent his disheartenment, he used coarse materials such as burlap and unique perspective.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on 25 February 1841 in Limoges. In 1844 Renoir and his family moved to Paris where Léonard Renoir earned his living as a tailor.
In 1854 Renoir left school and begin his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter at the firm of Lévy frères. He attended the studio of Marc-Gabriel-Charles Gleyer,. At the same time Renoir enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. At Salon Renoir had his first success - the painting entitled Esmeralda Dancing with her Goat around a Fire Illuminating the Entire Crowd of Vagabonds, which he destroyed after the exhibition.
At the end of 1865 he was introduced to the seventeen-year-old Lise Tréhot who became his lover and model until her marriage in 1872. She posed for a number of works :Diana, Lise with a Parasol, Summer, Bather with Griffon and Woman of Algiers.
Three years before Odalisque won a place in the Salon, an annual government-sponsored exhibition in Paris, the Salon jury had rejected Renoir's Diana. The female nude masked as a mythological subject had offended conservative jurors. But Lise's turn in Odalisque--overtly eroticized even though fully clothed--met with their approval. Such exotic fantasy proved to be popular during the 1870s.
Renoir died on 3 December 1919 in Cagnes, aged 78. His sickness was not the immediate cause at his death. He had a heart attack.
http://www.renoir.org.yu/biography.asp
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/artexchange/artexchange_ss22.shtm

Claude Monet
Born: November 14, 1840 - Paris, France
Died: December 5, 1926 (aged 86) -Giverny, France
Nationality: French Field: Painter
Movement: Impressionism
Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plain-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.

Remedios Varo
Remedios was a Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter. She was born in Anglés Cataluña, Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was largely influenced by the surrealist movement. She was forced into exile from Paris during the Nazi occupation of France and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941. She initially considered Mexico a temporary haven, but would remain in Latin America for the rest of her life. She had an early abortion due to her economic realities of her life. Due to the abortion, she could not become pregnant again. In Mexico she met native artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. After 1949, Varo developed into her mature and remarkable style, which remains beautifully enigmatic and instantly recognizable. She died at the height of her career.