seurat.json 11.1 KB
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                    "headline": "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte <br><small>Georges Seurat</small>",
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                    "headline": "Small Horizontal Brushstrokes",
                    "text": "Work began in 1884. The artist worked on the painting in several campaigns, beginning in 1884 with a layer of small horizontal brushstrokes of complementary colors."
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                    "headline": "Complementary Colors",
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                    "caption": "Seurat made several studies for the large painting including a smaller version. Study for La Grand Jatte, 1884. ",
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                    "headline": "Dots as Solid Forms from a Distance",
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                    "caption": "La plage de Trouville, 1870, National Gallery, London. ",
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                    "headline": "Modern Life",
                    "text": "Although Seurat embraced the subject matter of modern life preferred by artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he went beyond their concern for capturing the accidental and instantaneous qualities of light in nature."
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                    "headline": "Permanence",
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                    "headline": "Procession",
                    "text": "Seurat explained to the French poet Gustave Kahn, \"The Panathenaeans of Phidias formed a procession. I want to make modern people, in their essential traits, move about as they do on those friezes, and place them on canvases organized by harmonies of color.\""
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                    "url": "<blockquote><p>faux Puvis de Chavannes</p><cite>Art Critic Paul Alexis</cite></blockquote>"
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                    "headline": "Critics",
                    "text": "Some contemporary critics, however, found his figures to be less a nod to earlier art history than a commentary on the posturing and artificiality of modern Parisian society."
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                    "headline": "Frame",
                    "text": "Seurat made the final changes to La Grande Jatte in 1889. He restretched the canvas in order to add a painted border of red, orange, and blue dots that provides a visual transition between the interior of the painting and his specially designed white frame."
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                    "headline": "Inscriptions",
                    "text": "Inscribed at lower right: Seurat"
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                    "headline": "Info",
                    "text": "<strong>Georges Seurat (Creator)1859 - 1891</strong><br> <strong>Physical Format:</strong> w3079.75 x h2076.45 in <br><strong>See on institution's site:</strong> The Art Institute of Chicago<br> <strong>Medium:</strong> Oil on canvas<br><strong>Nationality:</strong> French"
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