Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the artists who was associated with the Impressionist movement. Some of the other Impressionists include Mary Cassatt (1845-1926), Edgar Degas (1834-1917), and Claude Monet (1840-1926). Their view of Impressionist painting was a never-ending metamorphosis of sunlight and shadow. The world as we really see it: not a fixed, absolute perspective illusion in the eye of a frozen spectator within a limited frame of a picture window, but thousands of glimpses of changing scenes by a constantly moving eye. Renoir created a lovely dream world in Moulin de la Galette of pure joy and beauty. It is the commonplace Sunday afternoon dance, painted in 1876 in the picturesque Montmartre district. Lights flicker off the men and women in rose, blue, and yellow. Renoir paints in loose brushstrokes. He is not concerned with details, yet he uses velvety brushwork that softens their forms and enhances their beauty. This is also seen in works Renoir would create in later years.
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