Georges Seurat : "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" (1884)

Description: "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," by Georges Seurat (1884) Available Formats • 9" x 12" (Image: 7" x 10.5") • 12" x 16" (Image: 9.31" x 14") • 16" x 20" (Image: 11.31" x 17") • 20" x 30" (Image: 16" x 24") • 24" x 36" (Image: 19" x 28.5") Archival Inkjet on Matte Finish Fine Art Paper About the Artwork A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is Georges Seurat's iconic masterpiece, and one of the most famous paintings of the nineteenth century. On a bucolic island on the Seine are gathered a motley assortment of forty-eight Parisians smoking, knitting, boating, fishing, enjoying music, and admiring flowers. Dogs meander through the scene. At right, a woman with a bustle and parasol holds a monkey. Near the center of the composition, a girl in white stares questioningly at the viewer. Seurat was inspired by the permanence of classical art and Italian Renaissance frescoes. As he stated to 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." Panned by contemporary critics and largely unseen until it was loaned to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1924, interest in the painting was renewed by the Marxist philosopher Ernest Bloch, who described it as "one single mosaic of boredom, a masterful rendering of the disappointed longing and incongruities of a dolce far niente [pleasant idleness]," seeming to "belong more to Hades than to a Sunday." A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is also the most recognized example of the pointillist technique. Measuring roughly 7 feet by 10 feet, it is made up of millions of dots of pure color which blend together at a distance. Seurat believed that these optically blended colors were more brilliant than the corresponding mix of paint and, indeed, that he was achieving the maximum luminosity that it was possible for his pigments to yield. Fine Art Quality The Ibis’s giclée process uses archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper to achieve crisp detail and rich, lasting color. Unlike posters, they will not yellow with time, but will maintain their original quality for as long as you own them. Happiness Guarantee All of The Ibis's prints come with a 100% happiness guarantee. If you are disappointed in your purchase for any reason, you are welcome to return it for a full refund.

Price: 23.99 USD

Location: Endicott, New York

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