June 15, 2005
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This painting is called “Springtime on La Jette,” painted by Monet.
I found this after searching for this painting, made famous in Ferris Beuller’s Day Off.
“Sunday afternoon on La Jette” by Seurat.
Why is this painting so famous, I’m not sure, besides the fact that Cameron is obsessed w/ it, and I always found myself connecting with his character.
It’s a generally pleasant painting.
This one’s called “Grey Weather Grand Jette”
Comments (4)
well, impressionists used classical scene assemblages with new painting styles and offered people new ways of perceiving the world. Remember that Seurat’s pointilism far pre-dated the “four-color” printing process or even the “halftone” process that would reproduce images through dots – so that now we’re familiar with the “blown up” printed photo that looks that way, but when Seurat was painting, no one had seen anything like it before.
When artists alter our perceptions of the world, their work becomes famous.
If you haven’t wandered the “history of painting” – and especially the Impressionist rooms, at the Art Institute in Chicago, you need to.
Seurat’s painting is meant to guide your eyes around the painting, from the women with the umbrella and her husband, to the group with the dog, to the young woman with her daughter and umbrella to the little girl in red dancing…
That and it’s one of the most famous (and first) examples of pointellism… but I see that TheNarrator already mentioned that part. Oops.
It’s a fun little trick that you’re entirely unaware of until it’s pointed out to you.
monet is awesome, i saw a bunch of his stuff at an exhibit in onio
i love vonnegut. yay for famous cornellians.
sorry.
i like the quotation in your header.
was just about to mention the whole “dot art” thing about those monet paintings, but some of yer other fans already beat me to it.
hope you feel loved today.