The painting in its current residence, the Art Institute of Chicago.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (French: Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte) is Georges Seurat's most famous work, and is an example of pointillism that is widely considered to be one of the most remarkable paintings of the 19^th century, belonging to the Post-Impressionism period. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 545 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 698 pixel, file size: 334 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Faithful reproductions of two-dimensional original works cannot attract copyright in the U.S. according to the rule in Bridgeman Art Library v. ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Image File history File linksMetadata Sundays. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Sundays. ... The Art Institute of Chicago is a fine art museum located in Chicago, Illinois. ... Le Chahut was painted by Seurat from 1889 to 1890. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses , see Painting (disambiguation). ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Self-Portrait with sister, by Victor Borisov-Musatov 1898 Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1914, to describe the development of European art since Monet (Impressionism). ...

The island of la [Grande] Jatte is in the Seine in Paris between La Defense and the suburb of Neuilly, bisected by the Pont-de-Levallois. Although for many years it was an industrial site, it is today the site of a public garden and a housing development. In 1884, the island was a bucolic retreat far from the urban center. This article is about the river in France. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... La Défense, the new skyline of Paris La Défense is a district of high-rise offices, apartment blocks and shopping complexes over part of the communes of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux (all in the Hauts-de-Seine département), to the west of Paris. ... There are many places named Neuilly in France: This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Seurat spent two years painting it, focusing scrupulously on the landscape of the park. He reworked the original as well as completed numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches. He would go and sit in the park and make numerous sketches of the various figures in order to perfect their form. He concentrated on the issues of color, light, and form. The painting is approximately 2 by 3 metres in size (approx. 6 feet 8 inches x 10 feet 10 inches). Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...

Motivated by study in optical and color theory, he contrasted miniature dots of colors that, through optical unification, form a single hue in the viewer's eye. He believed that this form of painting, now known as pointillism, would make the colors more brilliant and powerful than standard brush strokes. 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. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Art Institute of Chicago is a fine art museum located in Chicago, Illinois. ...

In creating the picture, Seurat employed the then-new pigment zinc yellow (zinc chromate), most visibly for yellow highlights on the lawn in 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 in the painting in Seurat's lifetime.^[1] Zinc chromate conversion coating on small steel parts. ...

References in popular culture

• The Stephen Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George is based on the painting.
• The painting is featured in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which is then, in turn, parodied in the Family Guy episode, The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
• In the famous zero-gravity opening scene of the 1968 film Barbarella, a section of the painting is visible.
• In 2004, 20^th Century Fox's "The Simpsons" were featured in a poster titled "A Day at the River" which imitates Seurat's famous painting. A mid-1990s Looney Tunes calendar also includes a parody.
• Also in The Simpsons, the episoded entitled Mom and Pop Art features Barney re-creating an exact replica of this painting.
• In PC and Commodore 64 versions of the video game Maniac Mansion, a shredded print of the painting hangs over the decaying dining room table.
• Old Deaf School Park, a park in Columbus, Ohio attempts to replicate the piece in three-dimensional topiary. [1].
• Nancy Cameron was posed in front of a copy of the painting, dressed in a similar way, for the January, 1974, edition of Playboy.
• A 1989 Sesame Street book featured a spoof called "Sunday in the Park with Big Bird".
• The Nintendo game Animal Crossing: Wild World has this painting for sale under the name "Calm Painting"
• A scene in Looney Tunes: Back in Action has Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck into this painting. When Elmer comes out, he is still in pointilism form, so Bugs takes advantage of this, and blows Elmer away with a small fan.

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• The song Camouflage from Third Eye Blind's 1999 album Blue references the painting in the line "Be a dream in color even on a winter's night/Thinking George Seurat afternoon bathed in light".

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Footnotes

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Related works by Seurat

External links

• Seurat and the Making of a Grande Jatte