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Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes
- chasil 8mo agoThe most famous painting is in Chicago, with Grant Wood's American Gothic and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. I have seen it several times.
- projektfu 8mo agoUn dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte is an impressive work. Seeing it in a book or online doesn't do it justice.
- eichin 8mo agoParticularly because, although there are smaller "study" versions as he worked up to it, the painting itself is 10 feet wide and most references don't include that context (at least not visually, they often list the numbers.)
- chasil 8mo agoThis view in the wiki communicates the scale and setting in the museum. I have a photo further back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Island_of_La_Grande_Jatte#Acquisition_by_the_Art_Institute_of_Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Isla...
- cozzyd 8mo agoYes I happen to live two blocks from the Art Institute and have seen the painting dozens of times but it's still pretty impactful every time.
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- kombine 8mo agoWent to this exhibition in London two weeks ago and can highly recommend!
- WalterBright 8mo agoAnd yet the article does not show the Paris Park Painting?
- bcraven 8mo agoIt links to it, but no the article is about his seascapes.
- ramesh31 8mo agoAnd yet, he finished that hat.
- stockresearcher 8mo agoThis movie scene from about 35 or 40 years ago could be a large reason he’s most famous for that particular painting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ3O9NFJIS0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ3O9NFJIS0 This is a classic American teenager movie.