The tree line at the top of the painting is one example of such a blended effect. The luminous bright white day to the upper left section of the piece steadily becomes less and less white until it blends seamlessly with the vibrant greens of the trees leaves. Seurat's technique means that such tiny dots of white are placed next to dots of green until the relevant effect is actualized.
The mix of white and green creates a halo like yellow in parts before it turns fully into green. Seurat's technique in this regard directly matches the color wheel which influenced his work immeasurably.
Here the color green blends into the color yellow as the lightest color on the wheel. Perspective: Most of the figure's view is focused on the river to the left of the image. Despite the river comprising of only a small part of the painting, its busy portion draws the viewer's gaze. The figures at the front are also very close to the viewer, making the woman's dress in the front of the piece purposefully enlarged.
Her and the man walking with her are the biggest figures in a painting of immense proportions and their size balances this work.
As with many bold new artistic movements or styles pointillism was regarded with a great deal scorn upon its exhibition. The painting style was like nothing that had come before it and much of the general public and art critics viewed it negatively view. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was the first painting of its kind to be painted entirely in the pointillism style and it was on the frontline with regards to both the advancement of Georges Seurat's new painting technique and the Impressionist movement as a whole.
Contemporary critical reception: Upon the exhibition of Grande Jatte in , it was the single most notorious canvas among all of the exhibited pieces. The eighth impressionist exhibition prided itself on being at the cutting edge of new styles and movements and thus Seurat's Grande Jatte stood out.
The work received heavy criticism, centered on the artist's mathematical, robotic interpretations of Paris modernity. Posthumous reception: Notable Marxist historian and philosopher Ernest Bloch was one of the forerunners of drawing social and political significance from Georges Seurat's Grande Jatte. The historian's focal point was Seurat 's robotic use of the figures and what their static nature said about French society at the time.
Bloch's view of the piece is perhaps best summarized in his book 'The Principle of Hope'. Modern day critical reception: Modern day opinions of Seurat's work seem to concur in parts with Bloch's view of the work. In her work Seurat's Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory Linda Nochlin highlights the lack of interaction between Seurat's figures and argues that Seurat's work is explicitly political in its content.
By making the figures lacking any uniqueness or articulation Seurat has undermined the traditional concept of Western depiction. Here there is no meaning to be interpreted, story to be actualized or hidden meaning to be discovered.
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Seurat contrasted miniature dots or small brushstrokes of colors that when unified optically in the human eye were perceived as a single shade or hue. He believed that this form of painting, called divisionism at the time but now known as pointillism, would make the colors more brilliant and powerful than standard brushstrokes.
The use of dots of almost uniform size came in the second year of his work on the painting, — To make the experience of the painting even more vivid, he surrounded it with a frame of painted dots, which in turn he enclosed with a pure white, wooden frame, which is how the painting is exhibited today at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Although for many years it was an industrial site, it is today the site of a public garden and a housing development. When Seurat began the painting in , the island was a bucolic retreat far from the urban center. The painting's dimensions are approximately 2 by 3 meters 7 by 10 feet , representing a truly huge size for pieces painted during this period.
When he painted this work, Georges Seurat was a mere year-old who had only seven more years to live. He was an ambitious young man with a scientific theory to prove, something totally unique for the elite of the modern art world. Seurat's theory was an optical one - he had the conviction that painting in dots was able to produce a brighter color than painting in strokes. Seurat claimed he sat in the park for hours upon hours, creating numerous sketches of the various figures in order to perfect their form before he even thought about starting the actual painting.
Extremely disciplined and private to the point of almost complete secretiveness, Georges Seurat concentrated primarily on issues of color , light and form. Gustave Kahn often spoke about how Georges used the Panathenaic procession in the Parthenon frieze as the main visual model for this work - yet, there was not a lot of classical in the completed painting.
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was initially started in with a layer of small horizontal brushstrokes of complementary colors. Seurat later added small dots that appear as solid and luminous forms when seen from a long enough distance.
This was the way he spectacularly proved his theory, showing that employing tiny juxtaposed dots of multi-colored paint really can allow the viewer's eye to blend colors optically. This turned out to be a revolutionary alternative to the way traditional painters went about defining forms within their artworks' compositions. Seurat's use of this highly systematic and near- scientific technique [3] distinguished his art from the endlessly more intuitive approach to painting used by the Impressionists.
Georges may have embraced the subject matter of modern life preferred by artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir , but the way he depicted it on canvas couldn't be any more different from the techniques of his peers. Georges' technique was subsequently called Pointillism and it's known by that name to this day. However, the painter himself preferred to call his method chromoluminarism , a term he felt better stressed the focus on color and light.
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