Comments on: Feel Art Again: “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”

By: Andréa

Andréa — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:30:59 +0000

Joseph: You’re more than welcome! I enjoyed looking into the painting; it was a good suggestion.

By: Dolly

Dolly — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:11:08 +0000

Back in 1962, I worked at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and I used to take my brown-bag lunch and sit on a bench in front of “La Grande Jatte” (in those less paranoid times, it was permitted) and just look and look at it. I never got enough, always wanted more. Now I am involved with a small theater company in Tucson, Arizona, which is mounting a production of “Sunday in the Park with George” in June, and it sometimes seems as if my long-ago experience of soaking up that painting led me inexorably to being involved with this production of what is arguably the most masterful American musical ever written. How perfect!

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:56:00 +0000

I saw the original Sondheim musical and just saw the revival. It is a London production and what amazing use of projection against the back of the stage that they used. Modern technology really helped this restaging. You were actually able to see a version of the “Chromulume” in the second half. Go see it.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:44:27 +0000

While in art school I remember hearing a lecture stating that Seurat used no green pigment in the painting-

By: anon

anon — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:29:34 +0000

Is it just me, or have I seen this on the outside wall of Trader Joe’s before?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:30:25 +0000

This is one of my favorite paintings. I saw it when it was at the Cincinnati Museum about 12 years ago maybe. Seurat’s did this in a “pointalism” style. Instead of brush strokes, he literally dotted the canvas with paint, from a distance it looks shimmering. If you get up close to it, you can actually see blank canvas between the dots of paint. God that’s painstaking!

By: hannah

hannah — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:41:24 +0000

One of the only reasons I agreed to visit an old boyfriend in Chicago in the middle of winter was to see this painting.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:21:58 +0000

I was working for a Beloit newspaper when they recreated this painting – I was totally impressed with the result! And what added to the tongue-in-cheek fun of it was that they used some high-profile locals in the shoot, including a state senator who now displays the recreated poster proudly in her office.

By: Therese

Therese — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:12:42 +0000

What a vibrant painting to ponder on this sleety day, when the view outside my office window is one of fog, greyness, and freezing rain! I’ve always beeen a fan of Seurat, despite the pop-culture bandwagon. (And frankly, that phenomenon isn’t all bad, as pop culture does sometimes enable people to learn about the arts when they wouldn’t otherwise.) The Beloit, WI, re-creation is really fascinating. Must’ve been fun to be part of that.

By: It's good to be the King

It's good to be the King — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:36:34 +0000

Back in 1993, the Detroit Grand Prix used this painting as the basis for the advertising poster for that year’s race, but modifying it so it shows indy cars and the detroit waterfront on the left hand side. Pretty cool actually.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find. The only image could find was through a google search: “Detroit Grand Prix XII”

It is on Proxibid, lot #44.