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Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes (smithsonianmag.com)
chasil 2 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 2 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 1 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 1 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 1 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 1 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 2 days ago [-]
Went to this exhibition in London two weeks ago and can highly recommend!
WalterBright 1 days ago [-]
And yet the article does not show the Paris Park Painting?
bcraven 1 days ago [-]
It links to it, but no the article is about his seascapes.
2 days ago [-]
ramesh31 1 days ago [-]
And yet, he finished that hat.
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