the painting a sunday on la grande jatte is located at louvre in paris.
where is the painting a sunday on la grande jatte?
louvre in paris
in 1923, frederic bartlett was appointed trustee of the art institute of chicago. he and his second wife, helen birch bartlett, loaned their collection of french post-impressionist and modernist art to the museum. it was mrs. bartlett who had an interest in french and avant-garde artists and influenced her husband's collecting tastes. "sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte" was purchased on the advice of the art institute of chicago's curatorial staff in 1924.
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
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