AN aura of epic (and of late, cinematic) drama hovers over the struggles, achievements and major breakthroughs of such 19th century greats as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne, on whose ...

Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is a painting defined by its ambiguities. The monumental canvas, measuring some 7 by 10 feet, shows upper- and middle-class ...

John Hughes’s beloved 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off follows three students, Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron (Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck), as they skip school and spend a wonderful day in ...

On “Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte”at the Art Institute of Chicago. The career of the nineteenth-century French painter Georges Seurat was lamentably short; he died in 1891 at the age of ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- It's one of the most recognizable paintings of all time – Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." Seurat painted the masterwork from 1884 to 1886, and ...

Georges-Pierre Seurat was born in 1859. He was just 31 when he died, but in his short life, he would change the course of modern art with one painting - simply by taking a walk in the park, reports ...

To artists inspired by what they see in nature, volcanic sunsets are the holy grail of light and color. They transform placid sunsets and post-twilight glows into vibrant bloodbaths of spectral ...

Georges Seurat, born on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France, was a pioneering French painter known for developing the technique of pointillism, a method of painting with tiny dots of color that blend ...

Georges Seurat's once-mocked painting Bathers at Asnières is both an "exquisite distillation of the very essence of summer" and "a modern wonder in the art of seeing". The greatest works of art see ...