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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884

Georges Seurat, Oil on canvas, original dimensions 81.7 in. x 121 in.

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OIL PAINTING: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884
In inventing "Divisionism", in other words, in painting with tiny, evenly juxtaposed dots of pure colour, Seurat was trying, in his way, to provide a solution for the disappearing forms with which Impressionism had ended up. In "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" painted in a divided-up style, the lines of the skilfully arranged composition express sentiments - the horizontal lines evoke immobility, the ascending oblique lines and contrasting silhouettes dynamism,.. Seurat died before seeing his painting hung at the "Salon des Independants": he was thirty-two, and it was Signac who would take up the torch of this new pictorial technique, dubbed Neo-Impressionism.