Georges Seurat
Name: Le Chahut.
Year: 1889-90.
Artist: Georges Seurat.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 170 cm × 141 cm (66.92 in × 55.12 in).
Movement/Style: Post-Impressionism/Pointillism(divisionist).
Location: Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.
The Analysis:
- Appears in the painting, the dancers, the musicians and the crowd.
- It is obvious that the painting was done using the pointillism method.
- This painting shows the artist’s interest in combining between light, forms and clarity of emotions. - In the lower right of the painting, a man appears mesmerized by looking at dancers excuting a high kick.
- Dancers’ pride and confidence appear on their faces which confirms the artist’s tendency to show the emotions clearly.
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- In Seurat’s opinion, a painting should reflect peace, joy or sorrow. In his painting, viewer feels joy and dynamical movement.
- The artist’s personality did not show up in his painting. He considered the impressionist’s art so emotional so he created his technique (which was not to show the personality of the artist). - The painting is full of curves and rhythmic repetition which give us the sense of dynamical movement.
- Light and dark are modeled by the technique of using small dots with different intensity and concentrations. Then, those dots come together and fuse in viewer’s eyes creating the effect of mixed colors if it was seen from a distance.
- In this painting, George changed what was done by the impressionists of using colors with similar or related hues. He used harmony of colors based on contrasting hues.
Color:
The artist used warm colors. He used degrees of red color, yellows, earth tones, greens, warm grays, browns and blues. His palette was a mixture of many colors, not only primary colors.
There is a blue border painted on the edges of the painting with an arch shape on the top edge.
Texture:
The texture appears in the clothes of the people inside the
Year: 1889-90.
Artist: Georges Seurat.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 170 cm × 141 cm (66.92 in × 55.12 in).
Movement/Style: Post-Impressionism/Pointillism(divisionist).
Location: Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.
The Analysis:
- Appears in the painting, the dancers, the musicians and the crowd.
- It is obvious that the painting was done using the pointillism method.
- This painting shows the artist’s interest in combining between light, forms and clarity of emotions. - In the lower right of the painting, a man appears mesmerized by looking at dancers excuting a high kick.
- Dancers’ pride and confidence appear on their faces which confirms the artist’s tendency to show the emotions clearly.
- Orchestra team …show more content…
- In Seurat’s opinion, a painting should reflect peace, joy or sorrow. In his painting, viewer feels joy and dynamical movement.
- The artist’s personality did not show up in his painting. He considered the impressionist’s art so emotional so he created his technique (which was not to show the personality of the artist). - The painting is full of curves and rhythmic repetition which give us the sense of dynamical movement.
- Light and dark are modeled by the technique of using small dots with different intensity and concentrations. Then, those dots come together and fuse in viewer’s eyes creating the effect of mixed colors if it was seen from a distance.
- In this painting, George changed what was done by the impressionists of using colors with similar or related hues. He used harmony of colors based on contrasting hues.
Color:
The artist used warm colors. He used degrees of red color, yellows, earth tones, greens, warm grays, browns and blues. His palette was a mixture of many colors, not only primary colors.
There is a blue border painted on the edges of the painting with an arch shape on the top edge.
Texture:
The texture appears in the clothes of the people inside the