7/17/2006: Live recreation of famous Seurat painting

Undertoad · 07-17-2006, 10:13 AM

Boing Boing'd and then sent along by axlrosen, thanks!

"Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" is the English name of it, and surely you've seen it; it's the prime example of pointilism, the technique Seurat came up with. You know, where the image is created by thousands and thousands of tiny dots. The technique copied in most types of photo reproduction and laser and dot-matrix printing.

If nowhere else, you've seen it studied by Cameron in "Ferris Beuller's Day Off", since it lives in the Arts Institute in Chicago, Chicago being the city in which Beuller took his day.

Beloit, WI decided to take a shot at recreating it.

The original:

Boing Boing also pointed out that at this page, if you click on tableaux-vivants, there are similar recreations. Mostly of lesser quality, but still fun.

07-17-2006, 10:13 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	7/17/2006: Live recreation of famous Seurat painting Boing Boing'd and then sent along by axlrosen, thanks! "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" is the English name of it, and surely you've seen it; it's the prime example of pointilism, the technique Seurat came up with. You know, where the image is created by thousands and thousands of tiny dots. The technique copied in most types of photo reproduction and laser and dot-matrix printing. If nowhere else, you've seen it studied by Cameron in "Ferris Beuller's Day Off", since it lives in the Arts Institute in Chicago, Chicago being the city in which Beuller took his day. Beloit, WI decided to take a shot at recreating it. The original: Boing Boing also pointed out that at this page, if you click on tableaux-vivants, there are similar recreations. Mostly of lesser quality, but still fun.

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