“White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge: bring order to the whole. Through design. Composition. Balance. Light. And harmony.”* Opening lines spoken by Seurat, “Sunday in the Park With George.” ...

For his masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the French painter created a new technique that used dots of colors to form an image when viewed from a distance. Steven Musil ...

6.5 x 9.75 in. (16.5 x 24.8 cm.) The first owner of Champs à Barbizon was the artist, Paul Signac, Seurat’s younger friend and direct disciple. Painted in 1882, the period of most of Seurat’s plein ...

Take a closer look at Seurat's 1884 masterpiece, "Sunday Afternoon on the Grande Jatte." Georges Seurat drawing, ca. 1875 from the ROADSHOW event in Albuquerque (left), and "Sunday Afternoon on the ...

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One of the iconic paintings of the Impressionist movement, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte in Paris by Georges Seurat, is often shown as the quintessential example of the “Pointillism” style, which is ...

The costumed cast of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Sunday in the Park with George suddenly appeared for the visitors, who had been ...

The 38,000-year-old woolly mammoth carving next to Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte." Despite the vast amount of time between their respective creations, both use a collection of dots to ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- For eight hours, spread over four days, Jane Labowitch, sat before one of the Art Institute's most iconic paintings, armed, not with pad and pencil, but with an Etch-A-Sketch. The ...

The cast of “Sunday in the Park with George” recreates the famous Georges Seurat painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” HOOLIGAN Theatre Company’s presentation of the musical ...