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Georges Seurat, Study for "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte", 1884, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 104.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon between May 1884 and March 1885, and from October 1885 to May 1886, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park [2] and concentrating on issues of colour, light, and form.
The poet and editor Richard Watson Gilder called it the "most remarkable work of art which has been exhibited in this country for a long time." [14] The painting also captured the public's imagination, and influenced the decision to preserve Yellowstone National Park for future generations. [3]
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. [23]
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
Valley of the Yosemite (or Valley of the Yo-Semite) is a painting by the German American painter Albert Bierstadt that was completed in 1864. Initially associated with the Hudson River School, Bierstadt rose to prominence for his paintings of the Rocky Mountains, which established him as one of the best painters of the western American landscape.
Artist Point is an overlook point on the edge of a cliff [2] on the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.The point is located east-northeast of Yellowstone Falls on the Yellowstone River.
John Constable RA (/ ˈ k ʌ n s t ə b əl, ˈ k ɒ n-/; [1] 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting [2] with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of ...
Topiary Park is a 9.2-acre (3.7 ha) public park and garden in Columbus, Ohio's Discovery District.The park's topiary garden, officially the Topiary Garden at Old Deaf School Park, is designed to depict figures from Georges Seurat's 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.