Seurat Learning Objectives
Objectives
- Understand Seurat’s system of painting and what made it different than the Impressionist paintings that came before
- How many years and how many studies were needed to complete A Sunday at La Grande Jatte.
My student in front of Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jette” (summer 2009)
Georges Seurat, Study for “La Grande Jatte”, French, 1859 – 1891, 1884/1885, oil on wood, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Resources
Strickland, Carol. The Annotated Mona Lisa. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2007 . Print.
Gaunt, William. The Observer’s Book of Painting and Graphic Art. London, New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1976, Print.
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