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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.
Jun. 23—In his masterpiece "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," the French post-Impressionist Georges Seurat demanded that the world look at art in a shocking new way. He never ...
Final study for La Grande Jatte [83] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 141 70.5 × 104.1 More images: 1884 to 1886 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte [84] Art Institute of Chicago 142 207.5 × 308.1 More images: 1884 to 1885 La Luzerne, Saint-Denis [85] Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh 145 65.3 × 81.3 More images ...
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–1886, oil on canvas, 207.5 × 308.1 cm, Art Institute of Chicago. In summer 1884, Seurat began work on A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The painting shows members of each of the social classes participating in various park activities.
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).
Models is a notable example of Pointillism, which refers to painting through a series of colored dots that together make up an image. [4]In an article written by Norma Broude in the Art Bulletin, she compares Pointillism to photo printing in the 1880s France.
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.
Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat.Seurat's most renowned masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, marked the beginning of this movement when it first made its appearance at an exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants (Salon des Indépendants) in Paris. [1]