Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" (1884-86) is one of the most famous paintings of the nineteenth century, depicting Parisians of different classes relaxing on an island in the Seine, rendered entirely through tiny dots of pure color — the technique Seurat called Divisionism, popularly known as Pointillism. Seurat spent two years on the enormous canvas, making dozens of preparatory studies to perfect its rigorous, almost mathematical composition. First shown at the final Impressionist exhibition in 1886, it announced Neo-Impressionism as a new direction in modern painting, and today hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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