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Renoir's actions are far from perfect of course. He's in a tough spot - his son dies, his wife refuses to talk about it, and then retreats into their son's canvas and creates a race of sentient humans, complete with an alternate version of their family, to cope with the grief and delude herself into feeling like he's alive. In his own past, Renoir had lost himself in a canvas, and Aline saved him by forcing him out. His new goal becomes to help her as she helped him, only it doesn't go smoothly because she's a better painter. So he spends nearly 7 decades slowly winning a near-stalemate, and once he finally triumphs, his first interaction with his daughter is her saying "hey dad I'm gonna do the same thing mom was doing." Of course he could've talked it out better but I can see why he did what he did.