Georges Seurat Sunday at La Grande Jatte (1884-86), is a paradoxical study: a painting of modern life does not capture the moment, but prevents it from dying on the track, and depicts aerosols dissolved into colors after careful examination.
Viewed from the 19th century perspective La Grande Jatte It is both contemporary and ancient, with an attractive escape of bourgeois casual scenes with the appeal of decorating the grave. Like many such murals La Grande Jatte Mainly a silhouette parade facing one direction. “I want modern people to make them move like they are in those trims with their basic characteristics,” Serrat once wrote, although “moving” actually means fixing them in the eternity of a certain color – like a spot, blooming like it.
La Grande Jatte It was the first component of Seurat that uses cutting-edge technology we call Pointillism, but he calls it Separatism or Peinture Optique. However, he applied this method to recall ancient art, thanks to two main influences on the evolution of his style. He grew up in the École de Beaux-Arts in Paris under the guidance of the painter Henri Lehmann, who specializes in historical painting and portraiture. He was Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, a former student of the 19th-century academic art giant, who passed the crystal of Ingres (if Leganid) to a young Seurat who has used it as a template for the rest of his career.
Another inspiration for the Seurat style came from his reading of color theory and perception – most famously The principle of harmony and color comparisonwritten in 1839 by the famous French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul. The book, one of its first books in its genre, lists Chevrolet’s concept of “simultaneous contrasting colors”, a phenomenon that seems to bring two tones close together and seems to be able to mix together like one another’s complement. This describes exactly how the point of Seurat depends on the audience’s eyes, rather than the artist’s brush merges colors. Indeed, Seurat believes his approach is an expression of experience. “Some people say they see poetry in my paintings,” he said. “I only see science.”
The painting is set in Yle de la Grande Jatte, a narrow piece of land in the middle of the Seine, with nearby rivers turning the southwest, dividing the city into the left and right banks. Its name is translated as “Big Bowl Island” and is derived from the terrain depression that forms its core features.
The park was created in 1818 by land owned by the Duke of Orléans (later Louis-Philippe I). Between the 1850s and 1870s, it was expanded as part of a large-scale urban renewal project directed by Emperor Napoleon III. It quickly became the most popular destination for Plein Air Painters (including Impressionists), where Seurat himself often visited.
Seurat’s first major composition, Asnières’ Bathing (1884), followed closely by La Grande JatteAlthough the points do not place the former in the former, the painting becomes a test of the technology. The artist introduces a group of working-class men on the banks of the Seine Bathing In the brush, more or less fused together, usually a stormy cross-dyed shadow that heralds his signature dots. Like the crowd La Grande JatteSeurat gave his bathers, with the stale solemnity of Greece.
basically, La Grande Jatte yes Bathing On the image and on the subject, the same landscape is depicted and some of its details are shared. In real life, directly opposite Asnières is La Grande Jatte. Together, these paintings depict both sides of the river. They even share the same railway bridge in the background. The two are physically mirrored with each other, the former subject is on the left, and the latter character is also looking to the right, but also sociologically, it is like a proletarian recliner Bathing In sharp contrast to the main middle class promenade La Grande Jatte.
Seurat started working La Grande Jatte In the summer of 1884, it took two years to complete. He completed about 70 studies, many of which were drawn (mostly on the boat and three on the canvas); what is visible inside them is the evolution of points Bathing.
As for its symbolic meaning La Grande Jatte Somewhat ambiguous. The park is a famous pickup for sex workers, which implies the strangeness of a woman who includes a woman fishing (metaphor) and a monkey who rides her arms with a man on the traction of the traction. French Words Xinxi (Female monkey) is a prostitute’s word, suggesting her profession.
The painting encountered ridicule when it appeared in the last Impressionist exhibition in 1886. Rebound ((Against Nature1884) and famous art critic wrote: “The figures of colored fleas he covered, have nothing, no soul, no thought, nothing.”
Despite Huysmans’ gibe, Seurat continued to push his fingertips in subsequent works, doubling their attitude by surrounding their dots with some, suggesting they migrate to the audience’s realm. Seurat even added La Grande Jatte When he finished three years later, he restretched the canvas.
Seurat died of an unknown infection at the age of 31, whose career was cut, which is believed to be meningitis, diphtheria or pneumonia. However, in a short time, he made idols of art history La Grande Jatte– This is a painting that relies on visual effects of the audience and artists.
