title cafe
This painting is famous because of the unique quality of all the people and light. Beautiful people are enjoying conversation and dancing, and the viewer is amased by the flickering light as it filters through the trees. Dark shadows are evident in this painting however, no black paint was used.

Moulin de la Galette

Who- Pierre Auguste Renoir
What- Oil on Canvas
When- 1876
Where-France
Why- ...always interested in painting people, he shows in this example a party in a park on a Sunday afternoon in Paris.
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