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...Kornstein drew upon another masterwork — “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by pointillist Georges Seurat — when laying out the case to jurors....
...In the Fourth of July scene, the arrangement of young bodies on the riverbank soon gels into a mash-up of Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and Seurat’s “Île de la Grande Jatte”....
...The technique, juxtaposing dots of pure colour into shimmering surfaces, was inaugurated in 1886 by Georges Seurat, with the stiff figures on the embankment in “La Grande Jatte”, to howls of mockery....
...The latter is a tableau reminiscent of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, and subverts art historical notions of outdoor leisure as the preserve of white gentry....
...Seurat’s pointillist comedy “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” (1884) was the next landmark: 50 Parisians filing past by the Seine, all static, most cast in shadow and faceless — a frieze...
...The drama suddenly bursts into life after the interval as we skip forward a century to the Art Institute of Chicago (where “La Grande Jatte” is still displayed)....
...In the monumental beach scene “Empty Dream” (1995) – her “Ile de la Grande Jatte” – she surfaced as four different mermaids in an indoor theme park....
...Using Seurat’s painting “A Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” as the basis for a reflection on art and artists was a strikingly original idea....
...As the scene ends, one of the group becomes entranced by Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, gazing with increasing intensity at the small girl in...
...through music – Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is a favourite orchestral showpiece and Stephen Sondheim has derived an entire musical out of Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte...
...The idea must have been to create a latter-day “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” – Georges Seurat’s 1886 pointillist masterpiece....
...Although loans of icons such as “Déjeuner sur l’Herbe” or “La Grande Jatte” are impossible, the show is impressive in diversity and international scope, and contains some outstanding works....
...frieze-like panorama where a rigidly posed woman with a dog seems to glide along the river bank like a mechanised puppet, recalling the hieratic formality and strict verticals and horizontals of “La Grande Jatte...
...The Institute’s most famous treasures include Seurat’s “Sunday on the Grande Jatte”, Monet’s series of haystack paintings (the collection is strong on impressionism), some choice Van Goghs and Gauguins,...
...Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” was an attempt to change the way people perceived painting....
...(Picture Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” with a bearded elephant reaching out to a naked one, and Georges-Pierre Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” populated with pachyderms and...
...seeking to score points against Nicolas Sarkozy, the centre-right frontrunner, who has been forced to deny accusations that he made illicit gains on his 1997 purchase of an apartment on the plush Ile de la Jatte...
...Sam Buntrock’s brilliantly intelligent production makes dazzling use of animation and projection to bring to life Georges Seurat’s painting “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”....
...It has the added bonus of clearing up any awkward investigations into suspicions of dodgy dealings dating back to Sarko’s purchase of a luxury flat on Paris’s Ile de la Jatte in 1997....
...Stephen Sondheim’s musical about the French painter Georges Seurat is notoriously difficult to stage, calling for the recreation of Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” during the...
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