This picturesque, multi-colored, brilliant oil on canvas from 1879/80 (47.5 x 56.4 cm) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), a French artist from the Impressionism era of modern art. The painting depicts two people (an older man and a pre-teen girl), approximately three feet apart and gathered on a rustic-looking brown rail overlooking an unwaking sky-blue lake with a small dark blue boat floating. along the shore. There is an occupant standing on the boat with a single pole in hand (sometimes used to push small boats along rivers and lakes in Italy) and an outboard motor is attached to the other end of the boat. boat. The blue color of the lake is a reflection of the calm blue color of the sky. Additionally, there is a small blue pond nestled along the brown, winding patch of land that runs along and surrounds the lake. If you look closely, this path is also occupied by a man (dressed in black pants and a gray shirt) and a woman (dressed in a green and white dress) strolling leisurely. The background is also set with lush trees and numerous vines which are a mixture of various colors of greens, blues and browns. The twisting of the green vines and prominent brown tree branches immediately behind the man provides an opening in the middle of this painting that draws your attention not only to the two figures in the image, but also to the slightly centered blue lake right. of man. At the very top of the painting, along its entire length, there is a three-millimeter width of crowded brown, gray and green leaves and vines. However, because of the complexity, softness and lack of space between these vines and leaves, my attention was drawn to the...... middle of paper...... its giant hot air balloon) . As the main founders of Impressionism suspected, their first exhibition did not convince the more established painters and critics of other art forms. They were castigated in the newspaper by the critic-humorist Louis Leroy and he was the first to use the term "impressionist". In addition, the word impression appeared in the title of one of Claude Monet's paintings entitled Impression Sunrise (Impression, Soleil Levant) which was in the exhibition. Although Louis Leroy was slightly impressed by the work and its freedom, he paid backhanded compliments to the artists and considered their works to be nothing more than wallpaper and unfinished sketches. (www.impressionism.org)Bibliographywww.artic.edu. April 24, 2014. Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. May 17, 2014. www.impressionism.org. 2012. Visiting an Online Website. May 17 2014.