• • Renoir(Noted for painting female figures and the beauty of daily life).

• Notes: Renoir believed a picture should be pleasant and pretty. I believe it should be beautiful, and he was, for beauty is transcendent; it demands a response. What does your invoice say about the work? To work is to be humble; to be humble is to paint still lifes. The unity of his work is because he was in love with his subject and the environment, which he explored lovingly.

• Morisot (One of the ‘grand dames’ of Impressionism who exhibited in the Salon and with the Impressionists, was friends of Corot and Manet).
• She captured the strength of the ephemeral through expressive brushwork with figures immersed within an environment capturing the fleeting glance of a scene. Her brushstrokes were fiery, accurate, and animated, for she drew with the brush sensation and expression beyond the representational.

• Degas (Though regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he considered himself in the area of realism, working only indoor and studio, befriended Cassatt).
• Note: He looked to balance the structure and the experience of rapture to embrace the mystery with a simultaneously dynamic blend of both science and poetry. What is your balance?