A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte | Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte

Description “I want to make modern people, in their essential traits, move about as they do on those friezes, and place them on canvases organized by harmonies of color." Scent: UnscentedTexture: Coated clear with foam beads Background Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, or A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, is the most famous of artist George Seurat's work.  It is also considered a founding work in the Neo-impressionist movement.  The painting itself is quite large, measuring 81.7" x 121.25".Seurat limited the number of pigments used in this painting as part of the contemporary view on color theory.  He intended to paint small dots of pure color that would mix in the eye of the viewer to achieve the desired color impression.Along with standard pigments of his era, such as cobalt blue, emerald green, and vermilion, he utilized a new pigment, zinc yellow.  While this bright yellow worked well to highlight the sunlit grass in the middle of the painting