Compare Gustave Caillebotte’s Rainy Day Paris with Renoir’s Moulin de la Galette. Specifically, respond to how these paintings address life in Paris in the 1870s. How does the broad boulevard in Caillebotte’s painting apply to the fact that Paris had been renovated? How does the crowd in the Montmartre dance hall Moulin de la Galette compare to the people in Caillebotte’s painting? Why are they both Impressionist painters when Caillebotte’s work is so much more precise in terms of brushstrokes as compared to Renoir’s?
