Utopia,orange,green,purple:A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,1884

France, 1991

Film
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Episode of Series “Palettes”.
Georges Seurat was a painter of the edge, the border, passage and nowhere is this more clearly seen than in his two major paintings set on the island of La Grande Jatte in the Seine, “La Baignade” and “Un dimanche sur la Grande Jatte, 1884”. This program looks closely at the similarities between the two huge paintings, the sketches and drawings that he made beforehand and at his scientific study of colour and light which resulted in his pointillist technique.

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Credits

producer

Alain Jaubert

production company

Delta Image

FR3

La Sept

RMN

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places
France
Production dates
1991

Appears in

Palettes

Group of items

Palettes

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303193

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - History

Crafts & Visual Arts → Impressionism (Art)

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters - France

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting - History

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, French

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, Modern - 19th century - France

Crafts & Visual Arts → Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - France

People → Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891

Short films

Short films → Short films - France

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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