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Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes (smithsonianmag.com)
chasil 42 days ago [-]
The most famous painting is in Chicago, with Grant Wood's American Gothic and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.

I have seen it several times.

projektfu 42 days ago [-]
Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte is an impressive work. Seeing it in a book or online doesn't do it justice.
eichin 42 days ago [-]
Particularly because, although there are smaller "study" versions as he worked up to it, the painting itself is 10 feet wide and most references don't include that context (at least not visually, they often list the numbers.)
chasil 41 days ago [-]
This view in the wiki communicates the scale and setting in the museum. I have a photo further back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Isla...

cozzyd 41 days ago [-]
Yes I happen to live two blocks from the Art Institute and have seen the painting dozens of times but it's still pretty impactful every time.
stockresearcher 42 days ago [-]
This movie scene from about 35 or 40 years ago could be a large reason he’s most famous for that particular painting:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ3O9NFJIS0

This is a classic American teenager movie.

kombine 42 days ago [-]
Went to this exhibition in London two weeks ago and can highly recommend!
WalterBright 42 days ago [-]
And yet the article does not show the Paris Park Painting?
bcraven 42 days ago [-]
It links to it, but no the article is about his seascapes.
42 days ago [-]
ramesh31 42 days ago [-]
And yet, he finished that hat.
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