A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

There is the painting 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1844)' in the Helen Birch Bartlett Gallery of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was drawn by Georges Seurat (1859-1891) and painted on canvas with oil pigments. This painting is a landscape that describes the island of La Grande Jatte. It looks like sunny day. There are many people on the grass. In the right foreground, a man and a woman, wearing French old-fashioned clothes …

…vibrant work, that Seurat introduced was adopted by his followers, the Neo-Impressionists. Many painters draw creative shapes on canvas, but it is not that all of them draw with their own methods. They use other artists' styles or theories, but unlike them, Georges Seurat created his own method, Pointillism, and he did not follow the mainstream of his time. He built his own style, Neo-Impressionism, and naturally, other painters followed him. Therefore, I admire him.