A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is one of the most well-known paintings of the 19th century. Georges Pierre Seurat started this painting in 1884 and it took him two years to perfect his portrayal of Parisian life in the park on the Seine River of Paris. Currently on display in the Art Institute of Chicago, this painting continues to draw interest and catch spectators’ eyes with its lively colors and unique style.
The fiscal boom of technology and merchandise of the Industrial age drove breakthroughs in science and industrial technology. During this time, realism; the truthful and objective representation of the social world, without illusion or imaginative alteration, was in full affect (pg 351). The Avant Garde art movement
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He also visited museums, including the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition and gained inspiration by the sprightly and atmospheric way which impressionists, especially Monet and Pissaro painted. This opened his eyes to develop theories on ways to create emotion and harmony through science and color. He continued to broaden his creativity of natural beauty and daily affairs while spending the summer of 1885 at Grandcamp, in Normandy and the winter working on the island of La Grande Jatte. He used his interpretation of paintings he had studied, along with his love for science and painted in a way that produced an incandescent, gleaming effect through “optical mixing.” To do this he applied tiny precise dots or brush strokes side by side so that they would appear to blend when viewed from a distance: known as Pointillism or Divisionism. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte embodies Seurat’s ingenuity and originality of how science and art can intertwine, creating a masterful, lively work of art. “Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only …show more content…
Recognizing his passion for art, his family encouraged him to begin taking art lessons from his uncle, Paul Haumonté, an amateur painter. In 1875, he began his formal education under sculptor Justin Lequien, taking drawing classes at night. Eager to expand his knowledge, Georges enrolled at Ecole des Beaux in 1878- 1879 in Paris under artist Henri Lehmann. In 1883, in his mid- 20s, he exhibited his first work in the annual Salon. In 1884, after being excluded by the Salon, he joined with Odilon Redon, Henri-Edmond Cross, Paul Signac, Maximilian Luce to establish Salon des Independants. Soon after joining this organization, he produced his first major work Bathers at Asnieres in 1884. Between 1884 and 1890 he continued sketch and draw conventional life events and make beautiful still life portraits and landscape canvases, including La Seine à la Grande-Jatte and Young Woman Powdering Herself. On February 16, 1890, he and Madeleine Knobloch, his common-law wife, welcomed their first son, Pierre Georges Seurat. Georges died of illness, meningitis or pneumonia, on March 29, 1891 leaving behind his wife and son. Shortly after Georges’ passing, Pierre also became ill and died on April 13,
Georges Seurat was born in Paris, France on December 2, 1859. He lived with his mother, Ernestine Faivre, and his two older siblings. His interest in art started in his early childhood and he eventually was encouraged by his uncle, an amateur painter and textile dealer, who gave him his first art lessons. Then in 1875, Seurat entered an art school where he started receiving professional lessons from sculptor Justin Lequiene. About three years later, he entered Ecole des Beaux Arts School and began sketching from plaster casts and live models. On his free time he would visit libraries and art museums in Paris and seek instruction from other well known artists. Michel-Eugene Chevreul was one of the artists who introduced Seurat to color theory. “Chevreul's discovery that by juxtaposing complementary colors one could produce the impression of another color became one of the bases for Seurat's Divisionist technique” (Remer). Seurat served in the Brest military for one year then returned to Paris and immediately continued with art. His first major painting was Bathers at Asnieres which was rejected by the jury ...
Georges Seurat used the pointillism approach and the use of color to make his painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, be as lifelike as possible. Seurat worked two years on this painting, preparing it woth at least twenty drawings and forty color sketched. In these preliminary drawings he analyzed, in detail every color relationship and every aspect of pictorial space. La Grande Jatte was like an experiment that involved perspective depth, the broad landscape planes of color and light, and the way shadows were used. Everything tends to come back to the surface of the picture, to emphasize and reiterate the two dimensional plane of which it was painted on. Also important worth mentioning is the way Seurat used and created the figures in the painting.
It corresponded to the emulation, which emerged among the lower classes of the postindustrial era, to pretend to have a good taste of art like the upper class. After the Industrial Revolution, the underprivileged, who had previously produced things to fulfill their own daily needs, turned into the working class of the urbans, producing things whose value in daily usage they would never see . This shift from crafting to manufacturing, from formulating to fabricating, and from creative to repetitive triggered a new need among these people. Although they did not have the time or education to enjoy and appreciate fine arts when they were in the countryside, the lower classes felt a new inclination towards art in the factory towns where they had the opportunity to observe that taste in art provided social status. Their desire to own works of art was precluded by their incomes which were no match for the high prices of the art market. With the aid of the mass production technologies and the manufacturing-commercial culture that followed, it became possible to produce multiple copies of artistic works and reduce the prices. This situation not only expanded the scope of art market but also provided the lower class with what they desired –or at least what they thought they desired: affordable art
The first painting analyzed was North Country Idyll by Arthur Bowen Davis. The focal point was the white naked woman. The white was used to bring her out and focus on the four actual colored males surrounding her. The woman appears to be blowing a kiss. There is use of stumato along with atmospheric perspective. There is excellent use of color for the setting. It is almost a life like painting. This painting has smooth brush strokes. The sailing ship is the focal point because of the bright blue with extravagant large sails. The painting is a dry textured flat paint. The painting is evenly balanced. When I look at this painting, it reminds me of settlers coming to a new world that is be founded by its beauty. It seems as if they swam from the ship.
Georges Seurat was a French born artist born on December 2nd 1859 in Paris, Frrance. He study at École des Beaux-Art, which was one of the most prestige art schools in the world, which is also known for training many of the renounced artist we know. George Seurat left the École des Beaux-Art and began to work on his own; he began to visit impressionist exhibitions, where he gained inspiration from the impressionist painters, such as Claude Monet. Seurat also was interested in the science of art; he explored perception, color theory and the psychological effect of line and form. Seurat experimented with all the ideas he had gained, he felt the need to go beyond the impressionist style, he started to focus on the permanence of paintin...
At the age of 21, his intestinal operation led to appendicitis. Henri was on bed rest for most of 1890 and to help him occupy his time, his mother bought him a set of paints. That was the turning point in Henri’s life. He decided to give up his career in law for a career in art. Matisse himself said, “It was as if I had been called. Henceforth I did not lead my life. It led me” (Getlein 80). Soon after, Henri began to take classes at the Academie Julian to prepare himself for the entrance examination at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Essers 7). Henri failed his first attempt, leading to his departure from the Academie. He then enrolled at the Ecole des Arts decoratifs and that is where his friendship with Albert Marquet began. They started working alongside of Gustave Moreau, a distinguished teacher at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, even though they had not been accepted (Essers 12). In 1895, Henri finally passed the Beaux-Arts entrance examination and his pathway to his new career choice had officially begun.
I will discuss Post Impressionism by using three works, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Still Life with Basket of A...
The Grand Jatte is a beautifully crafted, rehearsed masterpiece. For Seurat, it was a two-year learning experience in painting. As a short-lived student of the École des Beaux-Arts, he never formally learned much about painting. Instead, on his own, he sat and observed the world around him, drawing constantly. He was inspired by naturalist painters and eventually Impressionist colors. Seurat was not a traditional painter, and yet he admired and studied the tradition of painting. The Grande Jatte represents Seurat at his best and hints at a lost long career of
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that time, “Ecole des Beaux-Arts”, the art school run by Charles Glyre. It was probably the place where the first ideas of the Impressionism movement came on his mind. At the same time he met there his future best friends who will be his companions for the rest of his life. Frederic Bazille, Claud Monet, and Alfred Sisley, who at that point where just young talented students, with great plans for the future lif...
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