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Seurat completed the painting of Bathers at Asnières in 1884, at 24 years old. He applied to the jury of the Salon of the same year to have the work exhibited there, only to be rejected. The Bathers continued to puzzle many of Seurat’s contemporaries, and the picture would only be widely acclaimed many years after the artist's death (age 31).
The full work is also part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. [ 19 ] The painting was the inspiration for James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim 's musical Sunday in the Park with George [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] and played a significant symbolic role in John Hughes ' Ferris Bueller's Day Off .
As one of Seurat's final paintings, The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe demonstrates beautifully the principles of Seurat's own Neo-Impressionist movement. His systematic application of dots in colors carefully chosen according to laws of chromatic harmony results in unparalleled luminosity.
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The Circus (Seurat) M. Models (painting) P. Parade de cirque; S. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte; Y. Young Woman Powdering Herself (Seurat)
Portrait of Seurat by Maximilien Luce. This is a list of notable paintings by Georges Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891). He is a Neo-Impressionist painter and together with Paul Signac noted for being the inventor of pointillism. [1] The listing follows the 1980 book Georges Seurat and uses its catalogue numbers. [2]
Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (painted, 1884–1886).
Le Chahut is an oil painting on canvas measuring 170 by 141 cm (67 x 55 in). Seurat employed a Divisionist style, with pointillist dots of color. The work is dominated by a color scheme that tends toward the red end of the spectrum, of earth tones that draw from a palette of browns, tans, warm grays, and blues, interspersed with not just the primary colors (reds and yellows), nor even with the ...