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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte is the first of a new technique: pointillism. Instead of mixing pigments on the palette, Seurat applies the color to his canvas as dots.
Only when they are processed on the viewer's retina do they combine into the desired hue. The composition comes into focus when viewed from several feet away.
"Seurat portrays the island in the suburbs as a modern Arcadia. There are neither bottles nor picnic hampers to be seen on the well tended grass. Invisible too, are the restaurants, cafes, boatyards and private residences which in the 1880's already occupied two thirds of the island." (Hagen)
Afternoon La Grande Jatte is an exceptional canvas - one of our most popular but his painting wasn't always viewed favorably. "The philosopher Ernst Block described it as a mosaic of boredom". An art critic of the time viewed as a cheerful work, but the public did not share the critic's enthusiasm. The painting remained in the artist's possession until his early death in 1891.
The work was eventually donated to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte is the first of a new technique: pointillism. Instead of mixing pigments on the palette, Seurat applies the color to his canvas as dots.
Only when they are processed on the viewer's retina do they combine into the desired hue. The composition comes into focus when viewed from several feet away.
"Seurat portrays the island in the suburbs as a modern Arcadia. There are neither bottles nor picnic hampers to be seen on the well tended grass. Invisible too, are the restaurants, cafes, boatyards and private residences which in the 1880's already occupied two thirds of the island." (Hagen)
Afternoon La Grande Jatte is an exceptional canvas - one of our most popular but his painting wasn't always viewed favorably. "The philosopher Ernst Block described it as a mosaic of boredom". An art critic of the time viewed as a cheerful work, but the public did not share the critic's enthusiasm. The painting remained in the artist's possession until his early death in 1891.
The work was eventually donated to the Art Institute of Chicago.
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