A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat has painted ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’, in the name of discovering new ways of painting color and light. He has developed a new way of painting called pointillism - which is about painting small dots of pure color that form in final effect an image. Seurat is showing us a typical afternoon in Paris, the higher class people are walking, sitting and laying on pure green grass. What may seem strange about all the things that those people are doing is that they don’t interact, they are still and behaving like monuments. ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’ is a continuation of the subject of Seurat’s earlier work ‘Bathers at Asnières’. The earlier one is showing us how the working class is resting and swimming in Seine, but as we can see neither the upper and working class isn’t presented with personal features.