Seurat, France: Sunday Afternoon on Grand Jetée Island

[New Sancai Compilation and First Edition] "Sunday Afternoon on Grande Jatte" (Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte) was created in 1884 by the French painter Georges Seurat (1859-1891) One of the most famous representative works and a typical example of pointillism, completed on a large canvas, it is also the founding work of the Neo-Impressionist movement. It is collected by the Art Institute of Chicago.

The work depicts tourists relaxing in a park on the banks of the River Seine on a sunny afternoon on the Grand Jetée Island. There are 40 characters in the screen. This huge painting took two and a half years to complete. In order to create this work, Seurat drew more than 400 sketches and color renderings to study composition and color.

The Grand Jetée Island in the work is located on the Seine River in Paris. In 1884, when Seurat first began to create, this place was a resting residence far from the suburbs of the city. It was once an industrial site many years ago, but is now a public garden and residential development site.

(Compiled by: Bai Ding)

(Editor: Jiang Qiming)

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