Introduction

-        transition from Realism to Impressionism

-        artist's individual freedom

Subject, theme

-        modern-life subjects

-        great controversy

Composition

-         foreground -  a nude woman casually lunching 

with two fully dressed men

-        background - a lightly clad woman bathes in a stream

Light and shade

-         "photographic" light

-         almost no shadows

-         lighting - inconsistent and unnatural

Colour

Technique

-         breaks with the academic traditions

-         brush strokes

-         painting looks unfinished