A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Year: 1884-86 | Medium: Oil on canvas | Location: Art Institute of Chicago
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is French painter Georges Seurat’s most famous work. Depicting Parisians resting and chatting at a park along the River Seine, it has become famous for the pointillist technique used, a technique which Seurat helped develop. Pointillism involves the use of small dots of color applied in patterns to form an image.
La Grande Jatte was exhibited in the spring of 1886 alongside works of the Impressionists, and Seurat became known as the leader of a new type of Impressionism: Neo-Impressionism. Today, this famous oil painting is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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