I have seen this painting and its print many times over the years, including one of his studies in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, but I never saw the border, nor did I know that it should be viewed from the right at an angle. Interesting. Thank you!

@QueenBee-gx4rp

3 жыл бұрын

Janice Patricia Same here-most interesting! Now the figures on the right make sense!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Really pleased you have enjoyed the video. Seurat is an underrated painter. Cheers

@michaellynch2800

2 жыл бұрын

me have never seen the monkey before, haha monkee

After watching Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim, I have learned to appreciate this painting by Seurat even more.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

That's great

Seurat was never a favorite of mine but loving to learn more about him. I can more appreciate his works now. Thank you for your schooling 🤓

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Really pleased you enjoyed my video. Cheers

Brilliant and concise analysis, kept me interested throughout!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

That's great, glad you enjoyed it

Perfectly concise . Thanks for explaining all of the nuances.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Really pleased you enjoyed it. Cheers

@wealthbuilder59

3 жыл бұрын

Artist in School can’t remember where I had seen his work but I was fascinated by all of the dots of color and precisely the perspective of it when viewing . Really enjoy your series of these videos as Iam in th return to painting myself now that the virus pandemic has taken hold of our lives. Cheers

I can't get enough of your videos! Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Thank you. Cheers

Thank you for the great insight into the painting.😊

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

My favorite artist .

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

That's great. Cheers

Clear ,dinamic and didactict .Excelent work ,it stimulate enjoy art and apreciation .Thank you from Argentina

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Really pleased you enjoyed my video, cheers from England

I'll never forget the first time I saw this painting at the Chicago Art Institute. I had just finished my first year at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and we had finished freshman art history at the Baroque/Rococo period. I just looked and studied and looked at that painting, I guess giving me a head start at the upcoming sophomore art history next fall. When I first visited the National Gallery in London I had the same feeling, bordering on the obsessive the first time I saw "The Bathers at Asnières!'

@ArtHistorySchool

4 ай бұрын

Yes, it is a very impressive work. If you are particularly interested in this period the place to visit is the Musee D'Orsay in Paris, probably one of the most impressive art galleries in the world.

This was excellent, I’ve viewed this painting 50 times in person and now I can’t wait to see it again!!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

That's great, I hope you see it with new eyes!

you have opened my mind. thank you.

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Cheers

thank you for the analysis of this painting. I will look at it differently from now on.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! That's great. Cheers

This was absolutely marvelous, particularly the surprise ending!! Thank you so much for sharing.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers

my teacher in arts appreciation already discussed about this painting,and after watching your video I've learned more deeper meaning about this painting. thank you sir!😊

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀 Cheers

Gracias , cambió mi forma de ver y apreciar esta hermosa pintura que siempre me ha cautivado

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

De nada, me alegro de que hayas disfrutado el video.

Thanks for this. I love Seurat, especially his noir stuff, it's what got me into art.

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Cheers. He was a great artist.

Your work is genius. You love ART and it shows.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Fascinating! I had no idea about this being painted to be seen at an angle. Thank you! ❤️ Shirley

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Really pleased you enjoyed the video. Cheers

I honestly loooove all of your videos. Thank you for doing such an amazing job in making these videos. You are amazing teacher

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Love your style of story telling. Always learn something new about my favorite artists. Thanks.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanks for the heads up, definitely on my Art Bucket List!

@ArtHistorySchool

4 ай бұрын

Sounds good

The perspective shift is incredible. I never knew that!

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it's fascinating. Cheers

One of my favorite paintings of all time. Excellent documentary and analysis. Much appreciated.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers

Beautifully researched and presented! Congrats!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!

A refreshing insight into this wonderful painting. Thank you.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Really pleased you enjoyed it. Cheers

Great work to you.... I took Art History in college.. I nearly lost it.. thanks for being a great and precise to the point educator. I wish I had you in college.

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you! Much appreciated. Cheers

Very informative, interesting and entertaining - I always learn something new with your videos. Thank you very much!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! Thanks

Thanks Paul I enjoyed learning about this fascinating painting even deeper!!!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Sir, you are brilliant! Thanks to your channel (and I am writing notes from all of your videos) I have started to see art with a diffrenet view (better said: views). Thank you so much for your excellent knowledge and for sharing it with us.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, you are very welcome. Cheers

I really appreciate this series, I hope you continue this! I grew up in Illinois and remember this painting at the Art Institute downtown. I cannot wait to view it again after watching this. Thank you

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

I will continue, there will be another video soon

Absolutely Wonderful. I just love all the detail. I had the opportunity to work at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. They have Pinkie and Blue boy. Best time of my life. Thanks for all the detailed information Im glued to my chair.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

That's brilliant, really pleased you enjoyed the video. Cheers from England

Wonderful video and so interesting how much thought went into it. Thank you for focusing on a painting I enjoy very much and now know so much more about thanks to you 🙏🏼❤️😁

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers

Uau! Nice to learn so many things in a small video. Thanks a lot.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

Thanks Paul. Very interesting video.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Well done Paul another brilliant video!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Great breakdown. Thank you.

@ArtHistorySchool

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Cheers

Me encanto !!lo volvere a ver,muchas gracias !!😍

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Eres muy bienvenido

Thank you so much for the wonderful and detailed explanation! I enjoy very much this way of teaching! Thank you for that :)

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

I like the painting because I find it very realistic. I myself enjoy being outside, among people, enjoying e scenic view. I really don't know why exactly do I like this painting so much, but it is just calming for the eye. Maybe because of the fainted colours it seems so tranquil.

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it

you're an inspiration Paul, thank you so much for this video!

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

Recently visited AIC and saw the painting but wish I would have watched this first. Great video! Learned a lot! Thank you.

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Cheers

So Informative and interesting video. Thanks for sharing it

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Really good analysis and the insight into the painting was quite fascinating.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Really pleased you enjoyed the video. Cheers

Thank you for this, like others, I didn't know about viewing this painting from the side. Seurat was amazing, it is truly tragic that he died so young. Perhaps my most favourite painting, by any artist, is Une Baignade Asnières. It would be great if you could do a video about this.

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video, I'll have a think about your suggestion.

This is a great video, thank you for the lesson!

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Cheers

Fascinating, thank you for bringing it to me.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Such great info. Thank you for telling us.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, it's wonderful to know that my videos are appreciated. Cheers

Thanks for uploading this, pretty interesting, I am learning art history so I want to learn as much as I can a about art.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!. Check out my channel kzread.info Cheers

Brilliant presentation!

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Absolutely fascinating!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, much appreciated. Cheers

Really fantastic sir.... please give us more and more classes through the video.🙏🙏🙏

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

I will try my best

This was really interesting. Thank you.

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers

WOW! FACINATING!

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Instructif, merci

@ArtHistorySchool

2 ай бұрын

Cheers

You have thrown light upon a new perspective... awesome video... thanks for increasing our knowledge... with best regards - Abhiram Tilak here from Pune... India ...

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind comments. Cheers from England

Thank you for this video

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

I m an artist sir , and I never go abroad from India but I see many Western paintings. Because wold largest museum and largest galleries are in my hand. But I know one day I'll go abroad from my country. So sir ur videos are more useful for me. Thank you🙏🙏🙏.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome. I hope you make it to Europe and Britain one day.

@enjoyeverythingskydremer3153

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtHistorySchool sure sir...one day I'll....

One off the most underrated Artist, likely the main force behind Impressionist. His leaning toward color effect on color alignments, how one color visual effect another. Mainly eliminating, under coat off shades prior . Color mix , a prelude to Virtual digtialize color pigment algorithms. Way ahead off his time. Yellow is even digital a problem. Which can be done with by a tiny dab of Red. 👀❤️🦅🗽🤗🇩🇰🇺🇸🎨🖌️

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Seurat was a Divisionist, not an Impressionist, in the sense he tended to work in his studio, not outside, en plein air.

thanks for sharing us this nice video

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

OMG! you are fantastic!

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

This was awesome! Ty!!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers

Thank you so much!!

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

The perspective from the side reminds me of holbein’s ambassadors and its skull in the foreground. Enjoyable way to begin each day.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it does. It's an interesting idea.

Amazing!

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Excellent talk.

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you liked it. Cheers

Thanks for this video

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome

Very good and informative...

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Cheers

Just visited this weekend, wish i would've watched this video beforehand

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Good video. Thank you

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome

What a great video 💖

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!!

Nice and l enjoyed this story 👍

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

😽Thank you so much! It was useful story, indeed!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I'm so happy you've changed your intro from 'young artists and amateur artists' to 'everybody'! Mainly because I wasn't part of that first target group!

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the target audience is more adult that it was before. Cheers

Thanks 🙏 your Channel is well appreciate

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

You are a great story teller! I really enjoy all the wonderful videos. Thank you. How about make one about YOU -Paul Priestley? Also, do you sell your work online? Julie

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure a video about me would be that interesting. No, I don't sell work online. Cheers Paul

Brilliant!!!

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Cheers

@amah.vanniarachchy4334

Жыл бұрын

@@ArtHistorySchool your explanation about this painting was brilliant and I shared it with my students here. Never heard any art teacher or art critic explaining this painting like that. I also would love to write an article about your explanation about this painting to the local newspaper, as a feature article, quoting you and the channel. Would it be ok? It would be great if it is ok.

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

@@amah.vanniarachchy4334 Hi Ama, That would be wonderful, perhaps when the article is published you could send me a link? Many thanks, Paul

@amah.vanniarachchy4334

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. Yes, I will definitely send you the link once it is published.

A genius how he separate the blue of the river and the green of the grass with those figures with orange tones at the river shore. Thanks for the video.

@ArtHistorySchool

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Nice one

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🔥

How do you know about the purpose of the skewed perspective? Is there an artist journal somewhere we can read? I am interested in how he arrived at the bizarre challenges he has set for himself. Why was this painting intended to be viewed from such an angle?

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

He is not the first artist to make use of perspective on a flat surface. Hans Holbein the Younger painted The Ambassadors in 1533 using exactly the same idea. The skull in the painting can only be seen correctly fro an acute angle. It is all about perception. Why do we paint pictures of roads getting narrower as they disappear into the distance when we know the does not do that? Should we paint what we see or what we know? Interesting.

Thanks for this interesting analysis. Was there an intended setting for the painting which would have placed it at the 45 degree angle?

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Not that I know of. He was fascinated also by science, geometry and chemistry so he may have just designed like that.

Thanks!

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support on both my channels, it is very much appreciated. Kind regards Paul

This afternoon I went for a walk on the island of the Grande Jatte. It was a pity I did not see any painter whatsoever. And the island looks very different today from Seurat's painting.

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

The painting was painted near 150 years ago, so not surprising I suppose

@anacletwilliams8315

Жыл бұрын

@@ArtHistorySchool I wasn't exactly expecting to meet Seurat in person. But still, it is a pity I did not see any painters. Don't you think so?

Superb! Two of my grandchildren won’t in in school first quarter because of Covid here in Colorado. How might she use your program as learning tools ? Kids are 11 and nine. Thank you for your programs!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps they could watch the video and see if they could create a painting just using primary colours. Using the pointillist technique of dots they could create all the other colours they need. It will take patience and they will learn about how the eye perceives colour.

Seurat, Van Gogh, Gaugin, the same with Cézanne, they were so shockingly different to contemporary accepted art. One can only imagine the enormous social pressure on them and their work.

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

I think they could handle the pressure, but it is hard going against the mainstream.

I'd love to hear something about "Modersohn Becker" in the style of your videos. I'm a huge fan of her art, but there is not enough I can find out about her.

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

I'll add her to my list.

More please sir.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

I have more planned

@carolelerman9686

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtHistorySchool Thank you.

thanks for the video. but i’m not very understand that why should we view from the right side at an angle of 45 degree. that will make the couple on the right side even bigger when we are standing at the right.

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Have you tried looking at the painting from an angle? I think you will see all the figures work better in perspective with each other.

Hi sir your video is amezing

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

How did you use the georges seurat images and paintings images without copyright? Sir

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Paintings can come under what is termed 'fair use' for education, research etc. Also, whilst some galleries try to claim exclusive copyright on their paintings, it appears some years ago they lost an important legal case on this point. I can't remember the detail, but it was along the lines that if a gallery puts their paintings into the public domain, in the sense that they they allow the public to see them and some one takes a photo, they can't claim copyright of the photo. However, if that photo was then sold for profit that could cause copyright issues. It is also the fact that most art works move into the public domain 50 or in some cases 70 years after the artist's death. It can be a grey area so it is best to check.

@akshayanandyala4752

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir.

This is my very favorite 'fun' painting and I enjoyed your remarks. Love your series!

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Paul, can you make 1 on my hero Toulouse-Lautrec 👍🏼

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea, I'll add him to my list

Great video! Godo

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

A favorite of mine. I have seen the final version in Chicago. I have seen one of the study versions the Met in New York City. I am impressed by how he used olive and purple to make browns. The points blend to make colors that don't really exist. And the paintings are huge! So much work for such small dots. The prespective thing... mind completely blown... that is something I never knew despite seeing the sketches and the final version in person. Can you do something Grant Wood? His paintings in Chicago are amazing. He was much more then just "American Gothic" (iconic as that is)

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

You must be a mind reader. I am working on Grant Wood's American Gothic at the moment. Should be finished in a couple of weeks or so. Cheers

@jppagetoo

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtHistorySchool Oh awesome! I grew uplooking at his Midnight Ride of Paul Revere but never knew it was his painting until 10 years ago. Woods paintings are some of my favorite modern works.

@patriciaezzell7484

3 жыл бұрын

How do we know any of the artist's intentions?

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

@@patriciaezzell7484 Because of what they write down, preliminary ideas, and notes put down in sketchbooks, conversations noted at the time. Just like today artist's, like everyone else, spoke to friends, rivals, colleagues, family etc and much survives today. Van Gogh wrote over 1000 letters to his brother Theo over a ten year period, detailing almost every day and painting he produced during the last 10 years of his life. Those letters survive and can be viewed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. He's not the only one.

Is that a radio or a TV on the far right infront on the 3 women sitting on the ground? It looks like it but the radio wasn't invented until after this was painted....

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

If, as you know, radio and television were 20th century inventions, they can't appear in a 19th century painting!

@stennsonn

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArtHistorySchool So give me your best guess at what that wooden box is?

Are you aware that when the Bartlett family tried to donate it to the Art Institute of Chicago, they refused it at first? Many painting were donated by this family. I know extended family who told me this story.

@ArtHistorySchool

2 жыл бұрын

I wasn't aware of that. Cheers

Nice. Are you saying he used a subtle form of anamorphosis?

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Not quite so pronounced as that, more a subtle play with perspective.

Outstanding video explanation. Thank you very much for these insights, never knew the half about the painting and the perspective clincher at the end, amazing!

@ArtHistorySchool

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!. Cheers

ahead of his time as it were

@ArtHistorySchool

3 жыл бұрын

Certainly was

If the figures on the right look too large, then standing 45 degrees to the right would make them seem even bigger…one should stand 45 degrees to the left no?

@ArtHistorySchool

2 ай бұрын

It puts them in context with the other figures

@_GandalfTheGrey_

2 ай бұрын

@@ArtHistorySchool In what way?