Renoir’s Bal du moulin de la Galette captures movement, social life, light, color, and the festive rhythm of everyday Paris through Impressionist painting.
Caillebotte’s The Floor Scrapers combines three workers, parquet flooring, an open window, wood shavings, low perspective, and natural light to explore labor, modernity, skill, and the hidden work behind bourgeois urban life.
Seurat places working-class leisure beside the industrial Seine, combining Pointillist colour, pastoral calm, modern labour, and the tension between nature and industry.
