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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. In 1879 Georges Seurat enlisted as a soldier in the French army and was back home by 1880. Later, he ran a small painter’s studio in Paris, and in 1883 showed his work publicly for the first time. The following
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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. In 1879 Georges Seurat enlisted as a soldier in the French army and was back home by 1880. Later, he ran a small painter’s studio in Paris, and in 1883 showed his work publicly for the first time. The following
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Asnières, within walking distance of Theo's flat in Montmartre, van Gogh painted parks, cafés, restaurants and the river. "The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte" (F304) is a painting made by van Gogh of a favored area on the Seine near Asnières. It was made during a period where he explored the use of "dots" of paint set alongside contrasting colors, influenced by Georges Seurat. In 1885 Seurat made "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" with a technique of placing colored dots on a work which led a movement called "Neo-Impressionism", "Divisionism" and "Pointillism".
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of the Big Bowl". It is best known as the setting for Georges Seurat's pointillist oil painting, "Un Dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte" ("A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte") (1884-6 and 1889), and also for the Stephen Sondheim musical, "Sunday in the Park with George". In 1818, the Duke of Orléans, Louis-Philippe, acquired the Château de Neuilly to house his family of ten children. He bought the land and created a park which included the island, reachable only by boat. He also moved the "Temple de Mars" (Temple of Mars), which his father
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Ogden Rood and Hermann von Helmholtz. 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
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Models (painting) Models, also known as The Three Models and Les Poseuses, is a painting by Georges Seurat, painted between 1886 and 1888 and held by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. This painting, the third of Seurat's six major works, is a response to critics who criticized Seurat's technique for being cold and unable to represent life. Thus, the artist offers a nude, the same model, in three different poses. In the left background is part of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". It was exhibited at the fourth Salon des Indépendants in spring of 1888.
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and before that, Puritan America had condemned leisure for all. He cites the 1884 Georges Seurat painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" as an immobile, "static and stratified" depiction of leisure in "direct antithesis" of the relaxed, casual American equivalent. T.J. Clarke notes how "La Grande Jatte" illustrates people from the breadth of Paris society taking advantage of their free time by going to the riverside to show off new clothes, but that the act of removing one's jacket or otherwise loosening garments as a signifier of actually being at leisure was almost never done.
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following year, less than one year after Frederic succeeded his father, Adolphus Clay Bartlett, as a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago, they acquired Georges Seurat’s, "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". This purchase was made specifically with the museum in mind, at a time when the Seurat was not yet represented in any American or French public collection. Over the next several years, with the intention of placing "La Grande Jatte" in an appropriate artistic context, the Bartletts purchased major paintings by key Post-Impressionist artists Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri de
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Before an Aquarium". The following year, less than one year after Frederic succeeded his father as a trustee of the Art Institute, they acquired Georges Seurat's, "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". This purchase was made specifically with the museum in mind, at a time when the artist was not yet represented in any American or French public collection. Over the next several years, with the intention of placing La Grande Jatte in an appropriate artistic context, the Bartletts purchased major paintings by key Post-Impressionist artists Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
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full version of "The One on the Left" (of which only a fraction survives in the final show) performed by Colley, Ellis and Hammarlund. A cast recording was released for the Broadway revival in fall 2017 by Warner Music Group. Sunday in the Park with George Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses
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Sunday in the Park with George Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist. The Broadway production opened in 1984. The musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for design (and a
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in the West End, playing the role of French Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat, opposite Anna-Jane Casey. It was directed by Sam Buntrock, and was a daring production, using extensive animation and projections to show the creation of Seurat's masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte as it was put together over the course of the play. At the end of its short run at the Menier, "Sunday" transferred to the larger Wyndham's Theatre, where it continued until September 2006. It won five Olivier awards, including Best Actor for Evans, Best Actress for Jenna Russell, who took
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explored the use of "dots" of paint set alongside contrasting colors, influenced by Georges Seurat, who introduced Pointillism. In 1885 Seurat made "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" and used a technique of placing colored dots on a work which led a movement called "Neo-Impressionism", or "Divisionism" and "Pointillism". Van Gogh was one of the artists later called "Post-Impressionists" who was influenced by Seurat's style that rejected realism and idealism to create a new genre based upon abstraction and simplicity. Van Gogh learned from Seurat the beauty in simplicity and a means to convey messages in
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admirers of the first work donated to MOBA are hypnotized by the image of a portly man wearing "Y-front" underwear while sitting on a chamber pot, in pointillist impressionism similar to the style of Georges Seurat. One critic speculates the pointillist style in "George" may have been acquired "from watching too much TV". The title refers to the Stephen Sondheim musical "Sunday in the Park with George", which contains a dramatic recreation of Seurat's painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". Author Amy Levin suggests that "George" is a pastiche of Seurat's painting. The subject of
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pointillist painting "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat, allowing Bugs to easily disintegrate Elmer by blowing a fan at him. A four-year-old version of Elmer was featured in the "Baby Looney Tunes" episode "A Bully for Bugs", where he kept taking all of Bugs' candy, and also bullied the rest of his friends. He was also shown with short blond hair. He appeared in most of the songs. An even more villainous Elmer appeared in two episodes of "Duck Dodgers" as The Mother Fudd, an alien who would spread a disease that caused all
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nomination for Best Musical), numerous Drama Desk Awards, the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Musical and the 2007 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production. It has enjoyed several major revivals, including the 2005-06 UK production first presented at the Menier Chocolate Factory and its subsequent 2008 Broadway transfer. In 1884, Georges Seurat, known as George in the musical, is sketching studies for his painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". He announces to the audience: "White, a blank page or canvas. The challenge: bring order to the whole, through design, composition, tension, balance, light and harmony."
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umbrellas. The umbrellas were designed to evoke the Georges Seurat painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". At night, the park knolls are illuminated by LED lights. HO Park East is also home the Toronto Fire Services Station (Marine Unit) 334, Toronto EMS Station 36. HTO Park HTO Park (stylized as HO) is an urban beach in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that opened in 2007. It is located west of Harbourfront Centre, on Lake Ontario. The park is built on quays that was once used by ships berthing in Toronto's Inner Harbour. The park consists of two
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Georges Seurat Georges-Pierre Seurat (; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities which are usually supposed to be opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility; on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" (1884–1886), altered the direction of modern art
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the girl’s repeated form across the canvas, which works to represent her actual movement through space. The lines are not very definitive between each form; in fact, there aren’t many lines at all. The piece emulates an unusual sort of micro-cubist style. Balla also calls upon the techniques of both French Pointillism and Italian Divisionism. Pointillist painters utilize tiny points, which they dot on the canvas to create an image. Georges Seurat demonstrated the technique most famously in his piece, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". Conversely, the Divisionists, based in the north of Italy, used
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Léopold Survage and Tobeen. However, Bremmer advised her not to buy "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat, which turned out to be an important icon of 20th-century art. She did purchase however "Le Chahut" by Seurat, another icon in the history of modern art. Also, she steered away from artists of her native Germany, whose work she found "insufficiently authoritative." On a trip to Florence in June 1910, she conceived the idea of creating a museum-house. From 1913 onwards parts of her collection were open to the public; until the mid-1930s her exhibition
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some impact on the development of Divisionism include Charles Henry, Charles Blanc, David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville, David Sutter, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Ogden Rood and Hermann von Helmholtz. 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 was classically trained in the École des Beaux-Arts, and, as such, his initial works reflected the Barbizon style. Studying under Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Seurat intensely pursued interests in line and color, color theory, and optical effects, all of which formed the basis of
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I Want a Dog I Want a Dog is a children's book written and illustrated by Dayal Kaur Khalsa, originally published by Tundra Books and Clarkson N. Potter in 1987. The cover painting of the original book, which was also featured in the film version, is based on "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat. The book's main character was named after May Cutler, founder of its Canadian publisher, Tundra. May wants a dog more than anything else in the world, and, at school, often imagines that everyone in her class are dogs too. But
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Neo-impressionism Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat's greatest masterpiece, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", marked the beginning of this movement when it first made its appearance at an exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants (Salon des Indépendants) in Paris. Around this time, the peak of France's modern era emerged and many painters were in search of new methods. Followers of Neo-Impressionism, in particular, were drawn to modern urban scenes as well as landscapes and seashores. Science-based interpretation
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limited budget. French language and culture feature prominently, with homage paid to Eric Rohmer's "Six Contes Moraux", the music of Edith Piaf and the use of the Beijing Alliance Française as a location, setting the stage for a mixture of Asian and European culture and mores. The French singers are contrasted with Chinese opera where there is substantial variation in the timbre, tone and texture, but with similar messages. Photography and music are used to highlight the plot. The early-scene sun umbrella is intended to remind the viewer of Georges Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,"
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Seurat exhibit, with Seurat and Signac present at the opening. The major work shown is Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". In July, "Les XX" had an exhibition in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Exhibits of Albert Dubois-Pillet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri-Edmond Cross, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Paul Signac and Odilon Redon. First performance of Vincent d'Indy's "Poème des Montagnes". Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was one of the invited writers. Camille Pissarro, Maximilien Luce, Henri-Edmond Cross, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat exhibit. Included is Gauguin's masterpiece "Vision After the Sermon". At
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authority. In the 19th century, artists, caricaturists, fine potters, and even novelists depicted women smoking. Though portrayals of women smokers became more common, they were shown in a negative light because smoking was still not acceptable for women. During this time, artwork that incorporated smoking was kept in rooms reserved only for men including smoking saloons, billiard rooms, and libraries. Impressionists employed pipes to distinguish males from females and emphasize their different social statuses. In Georges Seurat’s "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte", the male in the white suit holds a cigar, and even in this snapshot of everyday
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inspired a musical and was famously featured in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", Georges Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte—1884," is prominently displayed. Additionally, Henri Matisse's "Bathers by a River", is an important example of his work. Highlights of non-French paintings of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection include Vincent van Gogh's "Bedroom in Arles" and ",1887". In the mid-1930s the Art Institute received a gift of over one hundred works of art from Annie Swan Coburn ("Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection"). The "Coburn Renoirs" became the core of the Art Institute's Impressionist painting collection. The collection also
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represent Georges Seurat's painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte." The park is seven acres and is home to 67 separate topiary figures, more than 220 trees, and a pond. The Thurber Park is an oval piece of grass set across from the Thurber House, temporary residence of James Thurber, on Jefferson Street. The park is half an acre and contains a gazebo, walkways, and trees. The Discovery District is home to multiple restaurants, including a variety of cuisines. These dining options have helped to keep people in the area after business hours to eat dinner,
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Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 and located in Chicago's Grant Park, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 million guests annually. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", Pablo Picasso's "The Old Guitarist", Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks", and Grant Wood's "American Gothic". Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special
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had commissioned, from Parc Monceau, and put it on the northern point of the island, converting it into the "Temple de l’amour" (Temple of Love). It was moved to the southern end of the island in 1930. Between 1850 and 1870, Napoléon III and Baron Haussmann further modified the island, and artists began painting there. At the end of the 19th century the island became known for its painters, especially the impressionists. In addition to Georges Seurat, artist such as Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Alfred Sisley, Charles Angrand, and Albert Gleizes painted scenes of the island. In June 2009,
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thesis, "How the Frame was One", on the development both theoretical and symbolic framing devices within art, primarily focusing on two works: Georges Seurat's "La Grande Jatte" (1884) and Eva Hesse's "Hang Up" (1966). Her first solo exhibition was at Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, in 2009. 2011: The Rose-Colored Room, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles 2011: Progression Minus Progress, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco 2011: All of this and nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2010: How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami 2009: Rogue Wave ’09: 10 Artists from Los Angeles, LA Louver, Venice 2009: CAA Los Angeles MFA
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coast : "Het Zwin at high tide" (1887) Because of his growing ties with the Parisian art scene, Octave Maus sent him as a talent scout to Paris to look out for new talent for the next exhibitions of "Les XX". He discovered the pointillist technique when he saw Georges Seurat's "La Grande Jatte" at the eighth impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886. Together with Henry Van de Velde, Georges Lemmen, Xavier Mellery, Willy Schlobach and Alfred William Finch and Anna Boch he "imported" this style to Belgium. Seurat was invited to the next salon of "Les XX" in Brussels
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year, Seurat began to work on "La Grande Jatte" and exhibited the painting in the spring of 1886 with the Impressionists. With "La Grande Jatte", Seurat was immediately acknowledged as the leader of a new and rebellious form of Impressionism called Neo-Impressionism. Seurat painted "A Sunday Afternoon" between May 1884 and March 1885, and from October 1885 to May 1886, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park. He reworked the original and completed numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches. He sat in the park, creating numerous sketches of the various figures in order to perfect their form. He concentrated
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bring for the first time a note of vitality to the serene picture in keeping with the more "sociable" climate of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". Seurat's "Bathers" preceded "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", which shows people on the bank of the other side of the river. While the bathers at Asnieres on the left bank are working-class people, it is the bourgeoisie who are on the right bank. The bathers are cast in light, while on the "Grande Jatte" almost everyone is in shadows, and there are allusions to
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and powerful than standard brushstrokes. The use of dots of almost uniform size came in the second year of his work on the painting, 1885–86. To make the experience of the painting even more vivid, he surrounded it with a frame of painted dots, which in turn he enclosed with a pure white, wooden frame, which is how the painting is exhibited today at the Art Institute of Chicago. The Island of la Grande Jatte is located at the very gates of Paris, lying in the Seine between Neuilly and Levallois-Perret, a short distance from where La Défense business district
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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. In conceptual artist Don Celender's 1974–5 book "Observation and Scholarship Examination for Art Historians, Museum Directors, Artists, Dealers and Collectors", it is claimed that the institute paid $24,000 for the work (over $354,000 in 2018 dollars). In 1958, the painting was loaned out for the only time: to the
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are the future. Come and join us". Seurat painted the "La Grande Jatte" in three distinct stages. In the first stage, which was started in 1884, Seurat mixed his paints from several individual pigments and was still using dull earth pigments such as ochre or burnt sienna. In the second stage, during 1885 and 1886, Seurat dispensed with the earth pigments and also limited the number of individual pigments in his paints. This change in Seurat's palette was due to his application of the advanced color theories of his time. His intention was to paint small dots or strokes of
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course. As a painter, he wanted to make a difference in the history of art and with "La Grand Jatte", succeeded. Seurat's painting was a mirror impression of his own painting, "Bathers at Asnières", completed shortly before, in 1884. Whereas the bathers in that earlier painting are doused in light, almost every figure on "La Grande Jatte" appears to be cast in shadow, either under trees or an umbrella, or from another person. For Parisians, Sunday was the day to escape the heat of the city and head for the shade of the trees and the cool breezes that came
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in white (who is not in a shadow), who stares directly at the viewer of the painting. This may be interpreted as someone who is silently questioning the audience: "What will become of these people and their class?" Seurat paints their prospects bleakly, cloaked as they are in shadow and suspicion of sin. In the 1950s, historian and Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch drew social and political significance from Seurat’s "La Grande Jatte". The historian’s focal point was Seurat’s mechanical use of the figures and what their static nature said about French society at the time. Afterward, the work received heavy
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applied spots at various locations in the lower mid-section of the painting, are also absent in the X-ray image. A contentious theory suggests that these elements were added by Seurat as a means of making a connection between the "Bathers" and "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". In spite of their remoteness in the middle distance, the motifs and the seated figures on the boat are present in the later painting, and the ferry boat indeed traverses the river between the Courbevoie river-bank and the "île de la Grande Jatte" itself. The late additions in "Bathers"
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a walk around the island ("Île des impressionnistes") was established, detailing the works of the impressionists. Many artists have painted L’Île de la Grande Jatte: Île de la Jatte The Île de la Jatte or Île de la Grande Jatte is an island in the river Seine, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine, and shared between the two communes of Neuilly-sur-Seine and Levallois. It is situated at the very gates of Paris, being 7 km distant (in a straight line) from the towers of Notre Dame and 3 km from the Place de l'Étoile. The island is nearly 2 km
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and Signac to participate in the eighth impressionist exhibit in May 1886. This is where "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" was shown. They had a separate room at the show. The Republicans' liberalization of press laws in 1881 also aided this avant-garde movement. It made it easier for people to begin their own newspapers, thus allowing more art critics to get published. The idea of the "modern primitive" drew this group and began with Signac. After Seurat displayed "La Grande Jatte", the critic Fénéon coined the term Neo-Impressionism. Pissarro, his son Lucien, and Signac also
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and the trees to the right, and which Seurat has pictorially extended beyond its actual length. The Asnières railway bridge, and the industrial buildings of Clichy are in the background. Locations such as this one were sometimes shown on French nineteenth century maps as "Baignade" (or, ‘bathing area’). Many artists painted canvases from this stretch of the Seine during the 1880s. As well as the "Bathers", some of Seurat’s better known works to come from the vicinity include his "The Seine at Courbevoie", "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", and "The Bridge at Courbevoie". Seurat uses
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and a woman hunched under an orange umbrella. Seurat also painted a man with a pipe, a woman under a parasol in a boat filled with rowers, and a couple admiring their infant child. Some of the characters are doing curious things. The lady on the right side has a monkey on a leash. A lady on the left near the river bank is fishing. The area was known at the time as being a place to procure prostitutes among the bourgeoisie, a likely allusion of the otherwise odd "fishing" rod. In the painting's center stands a little girl dressed
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work entitled "Matinée à Dieppe". In 1887 he exhibited at the acclaimed Les XX exhibition, with Walter Sickert, Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Georges-Pierre Seurat exhibit, with Seurat and Signac present at the opening. The major work shown is Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". Lebourg remained occupied in all four seasons painting animated scenes of the Seine in and near Rouen and Paris. He energetically painted in Auvergne, Normandy and Île-de-France, finally settling in Puteaux where he remained from 1888 to 1895, availing himself to the surroundings of Paris, painting what he would regard
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in topiary form; the installation was completed in 1989. The painting was the inspiration for a commemorative poster printed for the 1993 Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix, with racing cars and the Detroit skyline added. In 2011, the cast of the US version of "The Office" re-created the painting for a poster to promote the show's seventh-season finale. The cover photo of the June 2014 edition of "San Francisco" magazine, "The Oakland Issue: Special Edition", features a scene on the shore of Lake Merritt that re-creates the poses of the figures in Seurat's painting. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island
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We Roll Along" in 1981 (it closed after 16 performances), Sondheim announced his intention to quit musical theatre. Lapine persuaded him to return to the theatrical world after the two were inspired by "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". They spent several days at the Art Institute of Chicago studying the painting. Lapine noted that one major figure was missing from the canvas: the artist himself. This observation provided the springboard for "Sunday" and the production evolved into a meditation on art, emotional connection and community. The musical fictionalizes Seurat's life. In fact neither of his
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for the 1984 Broadway musical "Sunday in the Park with George" by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Subsequently, the painting is sometimes referred to by the misnomer ""Sunday in the Park"". The painting is prominently featured in the 1986 comedy film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". Such use is parodied, among others, in "", "Family Guy", and "Muppet Babies". In the "Simpsons" episode "Mom and Pop Art" (10x19), Barney Gumble offers to pay for a beer with a handmade reproduction of the painting. In Topiary Park (formerly Old Deaf School Park) in Columbus, Ohio, sculptor James T. Mason re-created the painting
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off the river. And at first glance, the viewer sees many different people relaxing in a park by the river. On the right, a fashionable couple, the woman with the sunshade and the man in his top hat, are on a stroll. On the left, another woman who is also well dressed extends her fishing pole over the water. There is a small man with the black hat and thin cane looking at the river, and a white dog with a brown head, a woman knitting, a man playing a horn, two soldiers standing at attention as the musician plays,
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of 1871; and he was fascinated by the way things distinct and different encountered each other: the city and the country, the farm and the factory, the bourgeois and the proletarian meeting at their edges in a sort of harmony of opposites." The border of the painting is, unusually, in inverted color, as if the world around them is also slowly inverting from the way of life they have known. Seen in this context, the boy who bathes on the other side of the river bank at Asnières appears to be calling out to them, as if to say, "We
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for the large painting including a smaller version, "Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" (1884–1885), now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. The painting was the inspiration for James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's musical, "Sunday in the Park with George". Seurat concealed his relationship with Madeleine Knobloch (or Madeleine Knoblock, 1868–1903), an artist's model whom he portrayed in his painting "Jeune femme se poudrant". In 1889 she moved in with Seurat in his studio on the 7th floor of 128bis Boulevard de Clichy. When Madeleine became pregnant,
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currently stands. Although for many years it was an industrial site, it is today the site of a public garden and a housing development. When Seurat began the painting in 1884, the island was a bucolic retreat far from the urban center. The painting was first exhibited at the eighth (and last) Impressionist exhibition in May 1886, then in August 1886, dominating the second Salon of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, of which Seurat had been a founder in 1884. Seurat was extremely disciplined, always serious, and private to the point of secretiveness—for the most part, steering his own steady
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is represented in topiary at Columbus's Old Deaf School Park. Also near downtown, a new Metro Park on the Whittier Peninsula opened in 2009. The park includes a large Audubon nature center focused on the excellent bird watching the area is known for. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium's collections include lowland gorillas, polar bears, manatees, Siberian tigers, cheetahs, and kangaroos. Its director emeritus, Jack Hanna, frequently appears on national television, including on "The Tonight Show" and the "Late Show with David Letterman". In 2009, it was ranked as the best zoo
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Designed by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, attractions here include summer and winter skating rinks, an extensive playground, climbing walls, tennis courts, and an activities building, which were redeveloped from 2012 to 2015. Built in 1893 on the western edge of Grant Park, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the premier art museums and art schools in the US, known especially for the extensive collection of Impressionist and American art, such as "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", and Grant Wood's "American Gothic". The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has facilities in
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playing over it. Near the end of the episode, a "Simpsonized" version of the famous French painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" is briefly shown. The character Edna Krabappel, despite having died - and being eulogized by Ned Flanders in Season 25 - is shown standing with Jasper in the background. The episode received an audience of 7.33 million viewers. It was the second most watched show on Fox that night, after "The OT". "Super Franchise Me" received generally positive reviews. "The A.V. Club" gave the episode a B. Dennis Perkins wrote in the review,
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Topiary Park Topiary Park (or Topiary Garden) is a public park and topiary garden in Columbus, Ohio's Discovery District. The topiary garden is designed to depict figures from George Seurat's 1884 painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". It is the only park based entirely on a painting. The park was formerly known as Deaf School Park, or Old Deaf School Park, as it was part of the campus of the Ohio School for the Deaf. It is owned by the city of Columbus and maintained by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department. The park is
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painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". The degradation of zinc yellow in Seurat's painting was thoroughly investigated and these findings were subsequently employed in a digital rejuvenation of the painting. Zinc chromate putty was used as sealant in addition to two O-rings between sections of the failed solid rocket booster on Space Shuttle Challenger. Blowholes in this putty may have been a minor contributor to its catastrophic loss. Recent studies have shown that not only is zinc chromate highly toxic, it is also a carcinogen. Exposure to zinc chromate can cause tissue ulceration and cancer.
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located near downtown Columbus. It features topiaries trimmed into life-size shapes of men, women, children, animals, and boats and arranged to resemble the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". Specifically, there are topiaries of 54 people, eight boats, three dogs, a monkey, and a cat. It also hosts 220 trees, including 35 different species. The park hosts jazz concerts. The park is adjacent to the Main Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library system. The branch was renovated around 2015, with one of the architect's goals being to join the library to the park. The gatehouse,
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"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" in the two women to the far left and right. Like long underwear with the ubiquitous "butt flap" (used to allow baring only the bottom with a simple gesture, as for hygiene), this clothing style was acknowledged in popular media such as cartoons and comics for generations afterward. More recently, the cleavage of the buttocks is sometimes exposed by some women, deliberately or accidentally, as fashion dictated trousers be worn lower, as with hip-hugger pants. An example of another attitude in an otherwise hardly exhibitionist culture is the Japanese fundoshi.
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Museum of Modern Art on 53rd Street. On April 15, 1958, a fire on the second floor of MOMA that killed one person forced the evacuation of paintings and staff on MOMA's upper floors to the Whitney. Among the paintings moved in the evacuation was "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" which had been on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1961, the museum began seeking a site for a larger building. The Whitney settled in 1966 at the southeast corner of Madison Avenue at 75th Street in Manhattan's Upper East Side. The building,
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killed in the fire and several firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation. Most of the paintings on the floor had been moved for the construction although large paintings including the Monet were left. Art work on the 3rd and 4th floors were evacuated to the Whitney Museum of American Art, which abutted it on the 54th Street side. Among the paintings that were moved was "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", which had been on loan by the Art Institute of Chicago. Visitors and employees above the fire were evacuated to the roof and then jumped
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pure color that would then mix on the retina of the beholder to achieve the desired color impression instead of the usual practice of mixing individual pigments. Seurat's palette consisted of the usual pigments of his time such as cobalt blue, emerald green and vermilion. Additionally, Seurat used then new pigment zinc yellow (zinc chromate), predominantly for yellow highlights in the sunlit grass in the middle of the painting but also in mixtures with orange and blue pigments. In the century and more since the painting's completion, the zinc yellow has darkened to brown—a color degeneration that was already showing
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criticism by many that centered on the artist’s mathematical and robotic interpretation of modernity in Paris. According to historian of Modernism William R. Everdell, "Seurat himself told a sympathetic critic, Gustave Kahn, that his model was the Panathenaic procession in the Parthenon frieze. But Seurat didn't want to paint ancient Athenians. He wanted 'to make the moderns file past ... in their essential form.' By 'moderns' he meant nothing very complicated. He wanted ordinary people as his subject, and ordinary life. He was a bit of a democract—a "Communard," as one of his friends remarked, referring to the left-wing revolutionaries
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on issues of colour, light, and form. The painting is approximately 2 by 3 meters (7 by 10 feet) in size. Inspired by optical effects and perception inherent in the color theories of Michel Eugène Chevreul, Ogden Rood and others, Seurat adapted this scientific research to his painting. Seurat contrasted miniature dots or small brushstrokes of colors that when unified optically in the human eye were perceived as a single shade or hue. He believed that this form of painting, called Divisionism at the time (a term he preferred) but now known as Pointillism, would make the colors more brilliant
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as starting points for modernism. Historian William Everdell, for example, has argued that modernism began in the 1870s, when metaphorical (or ontological) continuity began to yield to the discrete with mathematician Richard Dedekind's (1831–1916) Dedekind cut, and Ludwig Boltzmann's (1844–1906) statistical thermodynamics. Everdell also thinks modernism in painting began in 1885–1886 with Seurat's Divisionism, the "dots" used to paint "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". On the other hand, visual art critic Clement Greenberg called Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) "the first real Modernist", though he also wrote, "What can be safely called Modernism emerged in the middle
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"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", inspired torrents of negative criticism. The commotion evoked by this artwork could only be described with words like "bedlam" and "scandal". Neo-Impressionists' use of small segments of color to compose a whole picture was considered even more controversial than its preceding movement; Impressionism had been notorious for its spontaneous representation of fleeting moments and roughness in brushwork. Neo-Impressionism provoked similar responses for opposite reasons. The meticulously calculated regularity of brush strokes was deemed to be too mechanical and antithetical to the commonly accepted notions of creative processes set for the
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Museum of Modern Art in New York. On 15 April 1958, a fire there, which killed one person on the second floor of the museum, forced the evacuation of the painting, which had been on a floor above the fire in the Whitney Museum, which adjoined MoMA at the time. The May 1976 issue of "Playboy" magazine featured Nancy Cameron—Playmate of the Month in January 1974—on its cover, superimposed on the painting in similar style. The often hidden bunny logo was disguised as one of the millions of dots. The painting and the life of its artist were the basis
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in the painting in Seurat's lifetime. The discoloration of the originally bright yellow zinc yellow (zinc chromate) to brownish color is due to the chemical reaction of the chromate ions to orange-colored dichromate ions. In the third stage during 1888-89 Seurat added the colored borders to his composition. The results of investigation into the discoloration of this painting have been ingeniously combined with further research into natural aging of paints to digitally rejuvenate the painting. 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
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Île de la Jatte The Île de la Jatte or Île de la Grande Jatte is an island in the river Seine, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine, and shared between the two communes of Neuilly-sur-Seine and Levallois. It is situated at the very gates of Paris, being 7 km distant (in a straight line) from the towers of Notre Dame and 3 km from the Place de l'Étoile. The island is nearly 2 km long and almost 200 m wide at its widest point, and has about 4,000 inhabitants. Its name translates as "Island of the Bowl" or "Island
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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 Charles Blanc's "Grammaire des arts du dessin" introduced Seurat to the theories of color and vision that would inspire chromoluminarism. Blanc's work, drawing from the theories of Michel Eugène Chevreul and Eugène Delacroix, stated that
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Divisionism. 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, Seurat's 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 chromo-luminarism. Although this painting was originally rejected by the official salon it attracted the Salon des Indépendants where Paul Signac was engaged. Following the controversial success
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his first Divisionist painting, was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. Angrand joined Seurat in plein air painting on La Grande Jatte island. Angrand's implementation of Pointillist techniques differed from that of some of its leading proponents. He painted with a more muted palette than Seurat and Signac, who used bright contrasting colours. As seen in "Couple in the street", Angrand used dots of various colours to enhance shadows and provide the proper tone, while avoiding the violent colouration found in many other Neo-Impressionist works. His monochrome conté crayon drawings such as his self-portrait above, which also demonstrate his delicate
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Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", which took him two years to complete. The painting shows members of each of the social classes participating in various park activities. The tiny juxtaposed dots of multi-colored paint allow the viewer's eye to blend colors optically, rather than having the colors physically blended on the canvas. It took Seurat two years to complete this painting, much of which he spent in the park sketching in preparation for the work (there are about 60 studies). It is now in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Seurat made several studies
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276, 140. "Bathers at Asnières" by Georges-Pierre Seurat depicts a scene of 19th century leisure and developing industry in this suburb of Paris. In 1885 Seurat made "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte" used a technique of placing colored dots on a work which led a movement called "Pointillism". Vincent van Gogh made a series of paintings of Asnières. Influenced by Impressionism and Pointillism, van Gogh modified his traditional style and used vivid color, shorter brushstrokes and perspective to engage the viewer. His views of the banks of the Seine are an important progression for his later
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colors, particularly in his famous "Sunday Afternoon on the Isle de la Grand jatte" (1884–86). He did not know that the new synthetic yellow pigment, zinc yellow or zinc chromate, which he used in the light green lawns, was highly unstable and would quickly turn brown. The painter Vincent van Gogh was a particular admirer of the color yellow, the color of sunshine. Writing to his sister from the south of France in 1888, he wrote, "Now we are having beautiful warm, windless weather that is very beneficial to me. The sun, a light that for lack of a better
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Seurat's painting "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte". The garden was also sponsored by Motorists Mutual. Motorists Mutual Building The Motorists Mutual Building is a 286 ft (87m) tall skyscraper located at 471 East Broad Street Columbus, Ohio. It was completed in 1973 and was designed by Brubaker/Brandt and Maddox NBD. It is the 18th tallest building in Columbus, has 21 floors, and 6 elevators. It is also the headquarters of the Motorists Mutual Insurance company. The building follows the modern and international architectural styles and has a curtain wall facade system. The building overlooks Topiary Park, located
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short of four miles from the centre of Paris. It is in fact the case that the figures on the river-bank are not in the commune of Asnières, but are rather in Courbevoie, the commune bordering Asnières to the west. The bathers themselves are in the River Seine. The slope forming most of the left hand side of the painting was known as the "Côte des Ajoux", near the end of the "rue des Ajoux", on the north bank of the river. Opposite is the island of la Grande Jatte, the east tip of which is shown as the slope
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Seurat’s response to the theories in these writings is widely evident in the Bathers, most obviously in such areas as those of the torso and legs of the man seated centre-left on the persimmon-orange cushion, and of the central figure as his back contrasts with light blue water and his arm contrasts with water of a darker hue. In 1882 Seurat rented a small studio in the rue Chabrol close to his family’s home. "Bathers at Asnières" was painted in this studio, on a canvas identical in size to that part of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La
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paint woven fabrics, such as the couple in an Asnières park who share an interlocking pattern in their woven clothes. He collected yarn in different colors and tones to test color contrasts, just as Michel Eugène Chevreul had when he developed his theory on complementary color. The Van Gogh Museum claims that the painting was made in or near Montmartre which about 7 kilometers from Asnières. "The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte" (F304) is a painting made by van Gogh of a favored area on the Seine near Asnières. It was made during a period where he
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to silence". As Luc Sante points out, Fénéon, one might say, is invisibly famous, having affected so much without being recognizable to many. Fénéon’s lawyer offered him a post at "La Revue Blanche" after the trial and his subsequent expulsion from the War Office; he worked for that magazine until 1903. In that time, he went on to promote the works of Seurat and Signac through the magazine. He organized the first retrospective of Seurat’s work in 1900. Seurat is known for a number of works, most significantly "La Grande Jatte". Hajo Düchting, the author of "Seurat, The Master of
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la Jatte island (Bowl Island). La Garenne-Colombes is served by two stations on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line: La Garenne-Colombes and Les Vallées (this last station is located at the border between the commune of La Garenne-Colombes and the commune of Bois-Colombes, with a postal address in La Garenne-Colombes). The train has been used there since 1837. The two stations directly join Paris's most important urban station (Gare Saint-Lazare, Saint-Lazare station) in 10 minutes and the biggest university in Paris (Paris Ouest La Défense University, Western Paris University La Défense) in 2 minutes. In 1935, five Tramway
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show "La grande occasione". From September 2002 switched to Rai 1 presenting the afternoon show "Casa Raiuno", aired for two seasons. In summer 2003 has presented the primetime show "Beato tra le donne". In 2004/2005 hosted the Sunday afternoon show "Domenica in" with Mara Venier and Paolo Limiti, and the year after began presenting just a segment of "Domenica in", named "Domenica in - L'Arena". In the 2000s has also presented the event shows "Miss Italia nel Mondo", "Sanremo dalla A alla Z", "Una voce per Padre Pio", "Mare latino" and "Buon Natale con Frate Indovino". In 2009 and 2010
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Grande Jatte" that excludes the painted border. Following the rejection of the "Bathers" by the jury of the Salon of 1884, Seurat joined forces with some like-minded artists to become a founder members of the "Groupe des Artistes Indépendants". This institution held its first exhibition—the "Salon de Artistes Indépendants"—between May 15th and July 1st, 1884 at a temporary building in the place du Carrousel, adjacent to the Louvre. "Bathers at Asnières" is listed in the exhibition catalog as painting number 261, and it was displayed along with works from a total of 402 artists. Despite the fact that Seurat was
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people flowing to Pisgah Home:"It may be that some Sunday afternoon has found you in a spirit of criticism or pity for these poor deluded people ... From every direction you see them coming—in wheel-chairs, on crutches, stumbling in blindness, tottering with age, bent with burdens, painted with sin, stamped with greed ..." Complaints from his Highland Park neighbors were reportedly among the reasons for Yoakum's development of the remote Pisgah Grande community in the Santa Susana Mountains. Much of the publicity and funding for the Pisgah Home movement came from Yoakum's work as a faith healer and an early
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if and only if the object which that function takes you to in the other world does) are used, and once this is done, several varieties of global supervenience can be defined. Other varieties of supervenience include multiple-domains supervenience and similarity-based supervenience. The value of a physical object to an agent is sometimes held to be supervenient upon the physical properties of the object. In aesthetics, the beauty of La Grande Jatte might supervene on the physical composition of the painting (the specific molecules that make up the painting), the artistic composition of the painting (in this case, dots), the
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Jeanne Rij-Rousseau Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (June 10, 1870 – October 22, 1956) was a French Cubist painter and an art theoretician. Her estate has been scattered throughout the world. Paintings are trafficked in N.Y., Chicago, London, and Paris. Some works are in Parisian museums, in Blois, and in Grenoble, but especially in private collectors' homes. Research on this painter of the French Modern Age is still in its beginnings. Rij-Rousseau was born in Candé. From 1890 on, she lived in Paris and moved in an artistic circle with painters of the "Ile de la Grande Jatte" in Montmartre. She was a
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Renoir painted bridges, trees and sailboats at Argenteuil located in the northwestern suburbs of Paris. And van Gogh and others painted the Seine. Longing for tranquil settings, van Gogh began to paint beyond the city fortifications and along the banks of the Seine, in Asnières and the island of Grand Jatte. He experimented with a lighter, more colorful palette than used in his early Dutch paintings or "Montmartre" series. Upon arriving in Paris in March 1886, the Musée du Louvre was the first placed van Gogh visited, directly after exiting the train. In late 1886 he writes of his interest
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materials, her representations may vary, as well as the hat." – J.G. Posada While the original work by Posada introduced the character, the popularity of La Calavera as well as her name is derived from a work by artist Diego Rivera in his 1947 completed mural "Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central" "(Dream of a Sunday afternoon along Central Alameda)". Rivera's mural was painted between the years 1946 and 1947, and is the principal work of the "Museo Mural Diego Rivera" adjacent to the Alameda in the historic center of Mexico City. It measures 15 meters long
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in 1887. But there his "La Grande Jatte" was heavily criticized by the art critics as "incomprehensible gibberish applied to the noble art of painting". Théo van Rysselberghe abandoned realism and became an adept of pointillism. This brought him sometimes in heavy conflict with James Ensor. In 1887 van Rysselberghe already experimented with this style, as can be seen in his "Madame Oscar Ghysbrecht" (1887) and "Madame Edmond Picard" (1887). While staying in summer 1887 a few weeks with Eugène Boch (brother of Anna Boch) in Batignolles, near Paris, he met several painters from the Parisian scene such as Sisley,
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Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central or Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central is a mural created by Diego Rivera. It was painted between the years 1946 and 1947, and is the principal work of the Museo Mural Diego Rivera adjacent to the Alameda in the historic center of Mexico City. The mural was originally created at the request of architect Carlos Obregón Santacilia for the Versailles Restaurant of the Hotel Del Prado, which was located across the street. When the hotel was rendered uninhabitable
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Island" after having lived there for many years and have returned to settle in Paris, the setting of the first series "Hélène et les Garçons". Everyone but Rudy thinks Jeanne died in a terrible plane crash and Nicolas is the only one who knows what has happened to Hélène. Nicolas, now a photographer, is living on a barge that is moored to the bank of the River Seine. He's in a relationship with Ingrid, the manager of a seedy bar. Bénédicte and José are managing a restaurant on Île de la Jatte. After rescuing his granddaughter, Olga has become Bénédicte's
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La Grande Jatte" by Seurat. The museum's collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings includes a version of Ford Madox Brown's "The Last of England", voted eighth-greatest painting in Britain in 2005's Radio 4 poll, the Greatest Painting in Britain Vote. In 2015, the museum displayed two bronze statues (the Rothschild Bronzes) that it believed to be the work of Italian Renaissance artist Michaelangelo. If true, they would be the only known surviving bronze sculptures by the artist. The pair of statues depict naked, apparently drunk, men riding panthers. Art historian Paul Joannides connected the statues to a drawing in the Musée Fabre
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of "La Grande Jatte", Camille Pissarro and Paul Signac converted to Neo-Impressionism and, along with Pissarro's son Lucien, formed the basis of the Neo-Impressionist and Divisionist movements. Later promoted by Symbolist artists and critics, Divisionism became the avant-garde style of post-Impressionism. The support Seurat initially received slowly dissipated as he became increasingly hostile towards other artists, believing that they were corrupting his style and technique. By the end of his life few works of his received the attention they used to. "Circus", an unfinished work exhibited after his death, was barely noticed by critics or the general public. Camille Pissarro,
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ticket window. Gustave Kahn characterized "Parade de cirque" as "so willfully pallid and sad". The painting was overshadowed by the much larger "Models" ("Les Poseuses") when first exhibited at the 1888 Salon des Indépendants. Subsequently neglected by Seurat himself, "Parade" was not included among the large canvases listed in his "ésthetique" of 1890. Robert Herbert writes of "Parade": Falling uneasily between the huge, early plein-air paintings "Baignade" and "La Grande Jatte" and the late indoor scenes "Chahut" and "Cirque", "Parade" has neither the grandeur of the former nor the posterlike memorability of the latter. Yet it nonetheless demands a central
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Grey Goose Island Grey Goose Island is one of several, larger, uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada located within the midsection of James Bay. Other comparable islands in the area include the Bear Islands, North and South Twin Islands, Spencer Island, Sunday Island, and Walter Island. La Grande River and the Cree village of Chisasibi, Quebec are to the southeast. The island is low-lying and flat, dominated by rock and sand. It is devoid of trees, although there are grasses and other hardy plants. It is frequented by Arctic fox, Ringed seal, Beluga whale, caribou, and polar bears. A
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Coquet" returned Sunday afternoon to the lighthouse, taking with it the chief keeper Kerninon's own son who has agreed to replace one of the Corsicans". But the two had not reckoned on how challenging it was using this mode of transit. A team of young sailors from Brittany, swimming through the glacial sea, clinging to ropes, finally managed to put foot on the island and return through the same route, with the two wretched survivors both "black as demons and literally in shreds". Both keepers were later assigned to mainland lighthouses. Their plight, publicised after the shipwreck, was a "cause
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Jave la Grande La grande isle de Java ("the great island of Java") was, according to Marco Polo, the largest island in the world; his Java Minor was the actual island of Sumatra, which takes its name from the city of Samudera (now Lhokseumawe) situated on its northern coast. Due to a scribal error in Book III of Marco Polo's travels treating of the route southward from Champa, where the name Java was substituted for Champa as the point of departure, Java Minor was located 1,300 miles to the south of Java Major, instead of from Champa, on or near
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families and 15.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.0% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those age 65 or over. La Grande includes a historic commercial district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2001. The district is bounded by the following: The city is served by the La Grande School District, which includes Central Elementary School, Island City Elementary, Greenwood Elementary School, La Grande Middle School, and La Grande High School. La Grande is the home of Eastern Oregon University. "The Observer" is the local daily newspaper. Local radio stations
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Grande-Terre Grande-Terre Island () is the name of the eastern-half of Guadeloupe proper, in the Lesser Antilles. It is separated from the other half of Guadeloupe island, Basse-Terre, by a narrow sea channel called "Rivière Salée" (in English Salt River). Pointe de la Grande Vigie, in Grande-Terre, is the northernmost point of Guadeloupe island. To the east lies La Désirade, to the south lies Marie Galante Despite its name, Grande-Terre (literally "Large Land" in French) is smaller than Basse-Terre Island. It was called like that, in contrast with the much smaller Petite Terre Islands ("Small Land" Islands), two very small
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Polo’s Region of Locach. Jave la Grande La grande isle de Java ("the great island of Java") was, according to Marco Polo, the largest island in the world; his Java Minor was the actual island of Sumatra, which takes its name from the city of Samudera (now Lhokseumawe) situated on its northern coast. Due to a scribal error in Book III of Marco Polo's travels treating of the route southward from Champa, where the name Java was substituted for Champa as the point of departure, Java Minor was located 1,300 miles to the south of Java Major, instead of from
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the afternoon: La Défense station La Défense is a station of the Transilien (Réseau Saint-Lazare) suburban rail lines, RER, Paris Métro and tram. It is located underneath the Grande Arche building in La Défense, the business district just west of Paris. The station serves as the western terminus of Paris Métro Line 1 and connects the RER Line A to the Metro Line 1 station La Défense–Grande Arche since 1992, the T2 tramway since 1994 and SNCF (Transilien) train station. It is also attached to a . There are 25.62 million entries and exits each year. Highlights on the surface
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