George Seurat (born George Pierre Seurat) was a French painter renowned for establishing pointillism and chromoluminarism painting styles. "Seurat's pictorial pattern
is tantamount to actual social conformism; the stiffness and psychological isolation of the figures, however, argue for disjunction
Seurat's people assume roles in a collectivity, yet because they seldom communicate with one another, their actual isolation is revealed." A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is a painting attributed to 19th-century French painter, George Seurat. The content of La Grande Jatte also differs from Bird in Space; it is a satirical depiction of the life Seurat knew, while Bird in Space is even more abstract, and perhaps more of a personal and even spiritual experience to the viewer. He restretched the canvas in order to add a painted border of red, orange, and blue dots that provides a visual transition between the interior of the painting and his specially designed white frame. Art Institute of Chicago. Line: La Grande Jatte has strong horizontal and vertical lines throughout the painting. It may be just an ordinary day with ordinary people. What bliss!" Texture: Through the layering of the dots and dabs of paint, Seurat created an actual texture on the canvas you can touch. In an art appreciation course I was given the task to compare and contrast two pieces of famous art. I am very much in agreement with Hoven's description at how one may feel when they see this sculpture: "
One is immediately lifted into the air, both mentally and physically.". Seurat's composition includes a number of Parisians at a park on the banks of the River Seine. La Grande Jatte captures a satirical snapshot of what life would have typified on a Sunday afternoon in 1885 for the local middle class people on the island, so I consider the style abstract. This painting is so unique because it is a painting that has taken so much time and careful thought to make. The Art Institute notes: "'Bedlam,' 'scandal,' and 'hilarity' were among the epithets used to describe what is now considered Georges Seurat's greatest work
. Guggenheim Museum. The experience would have been more complete and meaningful if I saw the sculpture in a gallery, which I hope to do some day. Peasant Wisdom: An Analysis of Brancusi's Rumanian Heritage, PART: Journal of the CUNY PhD Program in Art History, 2000, (29 March 2002). Guerra, Vasco. Following is my subjective findings and perception of each artwork. The Collection: Modern Art: View 1 - Bird in Space, 1923, 2002,