Analysis of “Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
This week I visited the Metropolitan Museum, but because of the limited time, I only sticked to the 19th and Early 20th Century European Painting and Sculpture gallery on the second floor. There were many famous European paintings, which made me in a daze. I was attracted by several pictures at the beginning, but finally I chose Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.” Some of the things that caught my eyes about the painting was the peacefulness that I felt when I looked at the picture. Also I really liked the dress of everyone in the painting because it gave me that sense of higher class rich people. I really liked all the different brush strokes that formed different images for different people. I was intrigued by the fashion of the painting. The picture depicts a sunny day on the island of Jatte where tour people gather at the riverside woods to rest. Some walking, some fishing, and some lying on the grass. On the right, a pair of fashionable tall couple, who both with the black hat, are on a stroll. The woman’s hips are very plump; her right hand holding a small umbrella, and the left hand tying a monkey. On the left, another similarly …show more content…
The Wikipedia entry on “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” states, “ Seurat spent over two years painting A Sunday Afternoon, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park. He reworked the original as well as completed numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches. With La Grande Jatte, Seurat was immediately acknowledged as the leader of a new and rebellious form of Impressionism called
Neo-Impressionism.” I also learned that this painting is an example of pointillism, and is considered one of Seurat’s most famous works. I had seen the term “pointillism” in a lot of articles, so I thought if I wanted to have a better understanding of this painting, I
This week I visited the Metropolitan Museum, but because of the limited time, I only sticked to the 19th and Early 20th Century European Painting and Sculpture gallery on the second floor. There were many famous European paintings, which made me in a daze. I was attracted by several pictures at the beginning, but finally I chose Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.” Some of the things that caught my eyes about the painting was the peacefulness that I felt when I looked at the picture. Also I really liked the dress of everyone in the painting because it gave me that sense of higher class rich people. I really liked all the different brush strokes that formed different images for different people. I was intrigued by the fashion of the painting. The picture depicts a sunny day on the island of Jatte where tour people gather at the riverside woods to rest. Some walking, some fishing, and some lying on the grass. On the right, a pair of fashionable tall couple, who both with the black hat, are on a stroll. The woman’s hips are very plump; her right hand holding a small umbrella, and the left hand tying a monkey. On the left, another similarly …show more content…
The Wikipedia entry on “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” states, “ Seurat spent over two years painting A Sunday Afternoon, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park. He reworked the original as well as completed numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches. With La Grande Jatte, Seurat was immediately acknowledged as the leader of a new and rebellious form of Impressionism called
Neo-Impressionism.” I also learned that this painting is an example of pointillism, and is considered one of Seurat’s most famous works. I had seen the term “pointillism” in a lot of articles, so I thought if I wanted to have a better understanding of this painting, I