georges seurat painted a sunday on la grande jatte in the divisionism style.
georges seurat painted a sunday on la grande jatte in the divisionism style.
in which style did georges seurat paint a sunday on la grande jatte?
divisionism
a sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte









































a sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte () painted in 1884, is georges seurat's most famous work. it is a leading example of pointillist technique, executed on a large canvas. seurat's composition includes a number of parisians at a park on the banks of the river seine.









































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a sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte
divisionism, along with the neo-impressionism movement as a whole, found its beginnings in georges seurat's masterpiece, "a sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte". seurat had received classical training at the école des beaux-arts, and, as such, his initial works reflected the barbizon style. in 1883, seurat and some of his colleagues began exploring ways to express as much light as possible on the canvas by 1884, with the exhibition of his first major work, "bathing at asnières", as well as croquetons of the island of la grande jatte, his style began taking form with an awareness of impressionism, but it was not until he finished "la grande jatte" in 1886 that he established his theory of chromoluminarism. in fact, "la grande jatte" was not initially painted in the divisionist style, but he reworked the painting in the winter of 1885-86, enhancing its optical properties in accordance with his interpretation of scientific theories of color and light
divisionism