"About 1883 I had wrung Impressionism dry, and finally came to a conclusion that I knew neither how to paint nor how to draw. In a word, Impressionism was a blind alley, as far as I was concerned...," Renoir once confessed. When you examine an impressionistic painting, you may notice the ease with which they seem to be created. But everyone who took a brush at least once and approached a blank canvas or even tried to create anything, knows that our subjects, more often than not, overpower us and win - it so hard to capture that moment, express that thought, or that personal feeling. Sometimes you simply run out of time ...

"Poor blind idiots! They want to see everything clearly, even through fog!" Monet was complaining to Renoir even years later about the review about the first group exhibition when the author explained that he had to clean his glasses while looking at the paintings - he attributed the overall 'blur' to dirty lenses. Monet was fascinated with foggy, misty mornings and changing light due to moisture in the air - we see it in his landscapes, waterlilies and cathedral series. But when ...