135 years ago today, the Second Salon exhibition by the ‘Society of Independent Artists’ opened in Paris, dominated by Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, an immense painting that virtually launched the Neo-Impressionist movement. Seurat’s most famous work took him almost two years to complete, using his pointillist technique […]
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