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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – 1884 by Georges Seurat is considered to be one of the most important 19th century paintings. Find out more with James Rondeau, President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of ...

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Although their subjects suggest carefree pleasure, there are undertones of social criticism in some Neo-Impressionist paintings.

Introduction to Neo-Impressionism, Part II
by Dr. Charles Cramer and Dr. Kim Grant

The Neo-Impressionist desire to conform art-making to universal laws of perception, color, and expression echoes throughout Modernism.

Introduction to Neo-Impressionism, Part I
by Dr. Charles Cramer and Dr. Kim Grant

Seurat sought to bring science to the methods of Impressionism with new, methodical approaches to color.

Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte ...
by Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris

Seurat’s informal bathers are members of the working class—not the timeless bathers of history paintings.

Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières
by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

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