Nineteenth Century Painting and Photography
Georges Seurat's La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat was a post-Impressionist painter with a fascination for a mixture of urban life and rural landscape. His painting techniques are usually referred to as avant-garde pieces, with new advances toward depictions of color and light. In his later works, Seurat played with small dabs of color, unmodulating colors in his painting. His color relationships are evident in his later paintings.
The painting of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884-86) depicts this color technique and style usually seen in Seurat's later works. Exhibited at the final Impressionist exhibition in 1886, the painting contrived a number of controversies in 19th century French society. La Grande Jatte is also considered Seurat's greatest masterpiece of his career in art. It is no wonder that the work is considered thus, his dot technique features a vivid amount of colors; there is a dot-mixture of orange, green, and yellows.
2. Paul Cezanne's Montagne Saint-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves
Paul Cezanne is usually considered to be the link between the Impressionist period and the Cubist period. Like his Impressionist contemporaries, Cezanne displayed a vivid style full of color and composition. The brushstrokes in his paintings were clearly distinctive and indicative...
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