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One of the icons of late 19th-century painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (French: Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte), is the most famous work by French post-Impressionist artist Georges Pierre Seurat (1859-1891).
Painted from 1884 to 1886 it is a leading example of pointillist technique and is a founding work of the neo-impressionist movement. Seurat's composition includes a number of Parisians at a park on the banks of the River Seine. Seurat contrasted miniature dots or small brushstrokes of colours that when unified optically in the human eye were perceived as a single shade or hue. He believed that this form of painting, called Divisionism at the time but now known as Pointillism, would make the colours more brilliant and powerful than standard brushstrokes. To make the experience of this painting even more vivid, he surrounded it with a frame of painted dots, which in turn he enclosed with a pure white, wooden frame, which is how the painting is exhibited today at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Island of la Grande Jatte (French: Île de la Jatte or Île de la Grande Jatte) is located at the very gates of Paris, lying in the Seine between Neuilly and Levallois-Perret, a short distance from where La Défense business district currently stands. Today the island includes a public garden and a housing development.
Available as an archival quality reproduction in 9 standard metric sizes in the following formats: an unframed print; a framed print; a stretched canvas; a canvas floating frame. Frames are available in white, natural oak, chocolate oak and black sustainable timber.
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