even a drab road in louveciennes, where he lived, could provide the raw material for art.rro generally peopled the streets of louveciennes with peasant figures, showing it as a country village, but when renoir painted the same stretch of road, he transformed it into a cheerful pleasure ground with fashionably dressed strollers from the city. monet lived for five years at argenteuil on the river seine. he painted it over and over again in all weathers and all seasons. he was becoming increasingly concerned with the problems of translating fleeting light effects into paint. but he continued to explore the many different facets of the place. [train chugs] [train whistle blows] industry itself, the cause of suburban expansion, was largely ignored or evaded, although the chimneys of a local factory made a discreet appearance. but all these landscapes show his surroundings very much in a process of change, of transformation. this went right against the conventions of contemporary french landscape painting, which presented the countryside of france as a timeless, historical world