While it is mystical, it gives too much quiescence that is there with the impressionistic style. This like Picasso's painting above is a happy trip and does not exhibit as much negative energy as Picasso. He also does not seem to be trying to summon any primitive energies. Rather Seurat's painting is very urban. He is obviously a product of a new city, with new sidewalks, parks and a newly affluent city where nature had been tamed, including the monkeys on the leash. While it may seem that the monkeys are almost a Darwian joke, it does seem to be in the same as the dog on the leash of the lady with the umbrella. The dog and the monkey almost seem to expensive accessories like a handbag that has no other purpose. Indeed, the monkeys all over the painting make one wonder who is really in charge. The individual dots, dashes and small strokes are fascinating however. It is almost as if he is stitching together some kind of needle point. This meticulous, colored dot method, plays with the eyes and the perception of color and light. Its validity as a descriptive system is questionable and, in my opinion, incidental to what he is trying to achieve. He obviously wants the person to think about the scene and look underneath the bourgeois surface of the middle class society that he is portraying. This is why Seurat needs to be so meticulous, with so much extra details, contributions to depth and perception. He plays a lot with the light. I would make the argument that La Grande Jatte's was not so much a painting as a satire of middle class life. It is so subtle that someone has...
While this is understandable from the artist's point-of-view (they have to make a living after all), in terms of who goes down in my art hall of fame is the Picasso piece.
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