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Georges Seurat - Art History Project

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This is my final project for Art History

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  • totally LOVE how you did this! way better then all the slow music ones!

  • paintings and how to show them,interesting contrast...

  • impressive video in the way it was shown.

  • Thank you for joining me on this tour of the Seurat Virtual Gallery. I do hope you'll join us again soon!

  • We wrap up our gallery tour with Seurat's final large scale work, The Circus. This painting was left unfinished at his death, and like Le Chahut, this painting shows far more movement than many of his other works. Lively public entertainment at Cirque Fernando had been a popular subject for a number of impressionist painters, but like his other paintings, Seurat's representation was far different than that of other artists of his time.

  • Gray weather, our second to last painting in the gallery, evokes a certain sense of sadness. I don't know if it is the psychological effect of the title, "grayness" of the painting, or a combination of the both. I get a sense and feeling of loss somehow when I look at this. I think it has something to do with the empty boat. It's almost as if the person who should be in it has somehow died, or is in a bad state of some sort.

  • Le Bec Du Hoc sticks out in the eighth place within this virtual tour. While showing somewhat of a peaceful scene, the emotion this painting stirs in me is anything but. The path leading up the side of the cliff beckons me to sprint up the side of the rock, and dive to the ocean below. Whether or not I would have the guts to do this in real life, that is the emotion that it evokes within me!

  • Arriving next in our gallery tour is The Bridge at Courbevoie. What most strikes me about this work is the peacefulness and serenity. The two lone people on the shoreline, give it a more peaceful feeling. One might think the presence of two people would bring a disturbance to the peace, but their distance draws the viewer further into the picture of calm.

  • Le Chahut enters the gallery in the sixth position, and takes on a slightly different look than many of Seurat's other paintings. While there are certain bright areas of the painting, there are also deep, dark tones to it as well. Also, this painting tends to have more movement and action than many of his other works, and Seurat's cameo appearance in the lower left-hand corner makes this a notable piece.

  • Next in the gallery we have Young Woman Powdering Herself. This work, like Sunday on the Island..., took Seurat a couple of years to paint. One might wonder why Seurat took such great care in painting something that is in many ways simpler than some of his other works. The reason may likely be that he wanted to represent his mistress the best he could. Not even his closest friends knew until after his death that the model for this painting was indeed she.

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