Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party can be viewed as a response to Émile Zola's challenge for the Impressionists to create more complex paintings because of the

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Luncheon of the Boating Party features complex interlocking triangles connecting the figures, creating a sense of depth and movement in the composition, which was one of Zola's criticisms of Impressionist paintings. The outlines of the figures are not strong, and while identifiable people are depicted, this alone does not make a painting more complex. There is no imitation of a Rubens genre painting in Renoir's work.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party Can Be Viewed