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Why Is Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte So Important?

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A view of weekend day-trippers at a popular Parisian park overlooking the Seine, Georges Seurat’s Post-Impressionist masterpiece, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–86), is a study in contradictions: a painting of modern life that doesn’t capture a moment so much as stops it dead in its tracks, and a depiction of subjects as solid (if not stolid) volumes that dissolve into an aerosol of colors upon close examination. Viewed from a 19th-century …
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ARTnews broke the news in on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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