Sunday Afternoon Painting by Seurat

By artforus

Sunday Afternoon Seurat is a really important oil painting that is truly worth studying in detail when you get the chance!! Pointilism is an exciting technique, as practised by Van Gogh, and Georges Seurat is a master of it. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is probably his best example of this technique, thanks to it’s use of colour, lighting and the accuracy with which he depicted the island’s various characters.

La Grande Jatte is an island carefully chosen by Seurat as the scene for this work. The French artist would spend a lot of time here progressing his ideas before embarking on the work. The island itself is in the Seine in Paris between La Defense and the suburb of Neuilly, enjoying the attractive the Pont-de-Levallois too.

Seurat’s theories can be summarized as follows: The emotion of gaiety can be achieved by the domination of luminous hues, by the predominance of warm colors, and by the use of lines directed upward. Calm is achieved through an equivalence/balance of the use of the light and the dark, by the balance of warm and cold colors, and by lines that are horizontal. Sadness is achieved by using dark and cold colors and by lines pointing downward.

A full list of famous Seurat paintings can be seen below:

• Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
• Bathers at Asnières
• The Models
• Gray weather, Grande Jatte
• The Circus
• La Parade
• Le Chahut
• Forest at Pontaubert
• Une baignade, Asniéres
• Woman Seated by an Easel
• Boats, Low Tide, Grandcamp
• The English Channel at Grandcamp
• The Seine at Courbevoie
• Alfalfa Fields, Saint-Denis
• A Corner of the Harbor of Honfleur
• End of the Jetty, Honfleur
• Entrance to the Port of Honfleur
• Evening, Honfleur
• La Maria, Honfleur
• The Lighthouse at Honfleur
• The Shore at Bas-Butin, Honfleur
• Le Pont de Courbevoie
• Models (Poseuses)
• Port-en-Bessin
• Port-en-Bessin: Entrance to the Harbor
• Port-en-Bessin: Outer Harbor at High Tide
• Port-en-Bessin: The Outer Harbor at Low Tide
• The Seine at Le Grande Jatte
• The Side Show
• Sunday at Port-en-Bessin
• The Eiffel Tower
• View of Le Crotoy
• View of Le Crotoy from Upstream
• Chahut
• The Channel at Gravelines, Evening
• The Channel at Gravelines, Grand Fort-Philippe
• The Channel at Gravelines, in the direction of the Sea
• Jeune femme se poudrant (Young Woman Powdering Herself)
• Cirque