Domenica pomeriggio sull'isola della Grande-Jatte di Seurat | Analisi dell'opera

The videos mentioned: Renoir, Ball at the Moulin de la Galette    • Ballo al Moulin de la Galette di Renoir | ...   Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed ​​   • Vi racconto William Turner in 3 opere   You can buy the shirt I wear in the video with a 10% discount with the code 1000QUADRI https://teespring.com/it/stores/justa... If Seurat undoubtedly starts from impressionist painting, the arrival point represented by this painting which is a real manifesto of the so-called Pointillism, shows us several differences between the two techniques. The common element is certainly the representation of a theme from everyday life, a quiet afternoon out of town. The large dimensions of the painting, approximately 3 x 2 m, require Seurat to work in the studio. The painter, however, realizes "en plein air", dozens of pencil drawings and oil sketches of which I will show you an overview later. Coming to a more technical aspect, however, we can see how the typically quoted brushstrokes of painters such as Monet and Renoir leave room for much smaller dots of color which in reality are not always dots but also small segments differently oriented but always strongly organized and structured. . The dots remain pure in color, as in the Impressionists, but the organization and the juxtaposition follow very specific rules, optical and scientific rules that Seurat had carefully studied and about which I will talk to you later in the video. If then Impressionism is a very fluid and dynamic painting where the glance of the painter chases the fleeting moment on the canvas, so to speak, the fleeting impression that one has observing the world and which translates into an animated draft, pointillism is a rigorous discipline, a real science of the application of color as Seurat was keen to emphasize. The painter seems that one day he said: "someone sees poetry in my paintings, I only science". I don't know if the quote is true but it well represents the painter's positivist spirit. Another aspect that derives from the very orderly and rigorous drafting that we find in pointillism is a sort of tension towards the abstraction of forms. Seurat's canvas is all dotted with dots, there are no contour lines. This necessarily leads to making the forms immobile, fossilized, almost abstract. The approximately 40 figures that make up the Grande Jatte appear as figurines, each immobile, perfectly placed in space, with precise distances, but without its own plastic depth. A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte is a very complex work to which Seurat dedicated dozens of studies and two years of work. The result is a monumental work that is not only a testimony of the leisure moments of Parisians in the 1880s but also represents a key moment in the history of painting, the overcoming of impressionism that leads to post-impressionism. From here the step towards the avant-garde of the '900 is a short step. What do you think about The persistence of the opera A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande-Jatte and George Seurat? Write it in a comment Are you interested in art books? Subscribe to our Telegram channel: https://t.me/libridarte Contact us and follow us here: Email: [email protected] Instagram:   / 1000quadri   Facebook:   / 1000quadri