i dont see what the big deal is with the childs face, people tell me they see her face then dont, i see her face, it doesnt go away...am i suppsed to look closer?
2007-08-04 00:47:15 · 3 answers · asked by M 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
This, painting, Georges Seurat's most famous work, belonging to the Post-Impressionist period, is considered to be one of the most remarkable paintings of the 19th c, Let me try to explain why, and how one should look at it.
Before he painted this scene in oils, Seurat made many sketches of it, focussing on issues of color, light, and form.
He and his colleagues of that time were involved in a serious study of color and optical theory. What they learnt, came together for the first time in this painting where Seurat employed a style of painting, now called Pointillism. Instead of applying paint with standard brush strokes, he applied miniature dots of different colors which would form a single brilliant hue in the viewer's eye.
The right way to look at this painting is to step well back from it to a point when your eyes will "optically mix" these dots of color. The colors then begin to shimmer, with the figures in the picture seen, just as the artist planned, either as sparkling clear shapes or in semi-shadow.
I hope this helps you to see the picture in a "different light".
2007-08-04 04:02:36 · answer #1 · answered by angela l 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you get closer you will only see the dots and the brushmarks, you won't see the face.
It's like those pictures where you see a duck or a rabbit: http://www.planetperplex.com/img/jastrow_rabbit_duck.gif
If you are interested in that, read E.H. Gombrich's Art and Illusion.
2007-08-04 20:47:15 · answer #2 · answered by cesar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you see it ...now...?
2007-08-04 07:52:47 · answer #3 · answered by Princess Picalilly 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋