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·6 min readA Sunday on La Grande Jatte: Seurat, Pointillism, and the Science of Seeing
Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte is one of the most technically ambitious paintings of the 19th century. Discover how Seurat applied color theory, why he spent two years on a single canvas, what the rigid figures mean, and how the painting changed the course of modern art.