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Georges Seurat", "text": "In his best-known and largest painting, Georges Seurat depicted people relaxing in a suburban park on an island in the Seine River called La Grande Jatte." }, "type": "overview" }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": 75.71563324165896, "line": true, "lon": -132.1875, "zoom": 6 }, "text": { "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." } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": 77.62241984285832, "line": true, "lon": -20.478515625, "zoom": 4 }, "media": { "caption": "", "credit": "", "url": "" }, "text": { "headline": "Complementary Colors", "text": "The complementary colors give the painting a unified sense of color" } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": 77.62241984285832, "line": true, "lon": -20.478515625, "zoom": 7 }, "media": { "caption": "", "credit": "", "url": "" }, "text": { "headline": "Small Dots", "text": "He later added small dots, also in complementary colors." } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": 77.62241984285832, "line": true, "lon": -20.478515625, "zoom": 4 }, "media": { "caption": "Seurat made several studies for the large painting including a smaller version. Study for La Grand Jatte, 1884. ", "credit": "Georges Seurat", "url": "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Study_for_La_Grande_Jatte%2C_Georges_Seurat%2C_1884.jpg/800px-Study_for_La_Grande_Jatte%2C_Georges_Seurat%2C_1884.jpg" }, "text": { "headline": "Dots as Solid Forms from a Distance", "text": "The dots appear as solid and luminous forms when seen from a distance." } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": 77.63654163009744, "line": true, "lon": 79.62890625, "zoom": 7 }, "media": { "caption": "", "credit": "", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism" }, "text": { "headline": "Pointillism", "text": "Seurat's use of this highly systematic and \"scientific\" technique, subsequently called Pointillism, distinguished his art from the more intuitive approach to painting used by the Impressionists." } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": 72.71190310803662, "line": true, "lon": -9.140625, "zoom": 4 }, "media": { "caption": "La plage de Trouville, 1870, National Gallery, London. ", "credit": "Claude Monet", "url": "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Claude_Monet_002.jpg" }, "text": { "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." } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": 75.32002523220804, "line": true, "lon": 49.5703125, "zoom": 5 }, "media": { "caption": "Riace bronzes, examples of proto classic bronze sculpture", "credit": "Wikipedia", "url": "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Reggio_calabria_museo_nazionale_bronzi_di_riace.jpg" }, "text": { "headline": "Permanence", "text": "Seurat sought to evoke permanence by recalling the art of the past, especially Egyptian and Greek sculpture and even Italian Renaissance frescoes." } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": 75.45307133006602, "line": true, "lon": -65.126953125, "zoom": 4 }, "media": { "caption": "Cattle led to sacrifice, South XLV, 137–140, British Museum.", "credit": "Wikipedia", "url": "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Sacrifice_south_frieze_Parthenon_BM.jpg/794px-Sacrifice_south_frieze_Parthenon_BM.jpg" }, "text": { "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.\"" } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": 17.14079039331665, "line": true, "lon": -95.44921875, "zoom": 4 }, "media": { "caption": "", "credit": "", "url": "

faux Puvis de Chavannes

Art Critic Paul Alexis
" }, "text": { "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." } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": -35.46066995149529, "line": true, "lon": -99.84374999999999, "zoom": 6 }, "media": { "caption": "", "credit": "", "url": "" }, "text": { "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." } }, { "date": "", "location": { "icon": "http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-pushpin.png", "lat": -30.826780904779774, "line": true, "lon": 128.056640625, "zoom": 5 }, "media": { "caption": "", "credit": "", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Seurat" }, "text": { "headline": "Inscriptions", "text": "Inscribed at lower right: Seurat" } }, { "date": "", "media": { "caption": "Island of La Grande Jatte", "credit": "Stamen Maps", "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.m2i.stamen.com/20140221/toner_uC3-XT7eNGQ.png" }, "text": { "headline": "Info", "text": "Georges Seurat (Creator)1859 - 1891
Physical Format: w3079.75 x h2076.45 in
See on institution's site: The Art Institute of Chicago
Medium: Oil on canvas
Nationality: French" } } ], "zoomify": { "attribution": "", "height": 19970, "path": "http://gigapixel.knightlab.com/seurat/", "tolerance": 0.9, "width": 30000 } } }