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
a. strong outlines of each of the figures.
b. interlocking triangles connecting the figures.
c. use of identifiable people for the figures.
d. imitation of a Rubens genre painting.
Answer: b
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