[Billy_bob_bob]

Here's a link to an on-line image of this artwork:

http://perso.club-internet.fr/pyduc/Promenades/musees/orsay/renoir_bal.htm

I look forward to your reply.

[jonascord]

I think the colors are muddy, the technical ability is poor, the composition is crowded, and if the artist was trying to impart the idea of motion by blurring everything, he failed. If I want so see crowded and blurred, I'll get drunk and go to Times Square on News Years Eve.

Compare this with the Sistine Chapel, and it's sheer skill, scale, and ability to render a stylized world, or Escher's renditions of carefully drafted confusion, and then let's talk about marching in lockstep to the French Impressionists. Question authority. Just who says they were any good?