A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte | Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte

Description

“I want to make modern people, in their essential traits, move about as they do on those friezes, and place them on canvases organized by harmonies of color."

Scent: Unscented
Texture: Coated clear with foam beads

Background

Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, or A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, is the most famous of artist George Seurat's work.  It is also considered a founding work in the Neo-impressionist movement.  The painting itself is quite large, measuring 81.7" x 121.25".

Seurat limited the number of pigments used in this painting as part of the contemporary view on color theory.  He intended to paint small dots of pure color that would mix in the eye of the viewer to achieve the desired color impression.

Along with standard pigments of his era, such as cobalt blue, emerald green, and vermilion, he utilized a new pigment, zinc yellow.  While this bright yellow worked well to highlight the sunlit grass in the middle of the painting, the color has degenerated over time into a brown.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte has been housed in the Art Institute of Chicago since 1924

Texture

I chose to do a clear floam slime to represent this painting, using the hand-colored foam beads as an homage to the pointillism Seurat used. 

Scent

While the slime itself is unscented, it will come with a sachet of lavender and sage, so you can still have the smell of a warm day in France as you play with the slime.  Sachet hand sewn by the Chief Modist of the Library of Slime.

Product Details

Both 2oz and 6oz versions come with miniature charm of the painting.

Research Sources
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Wikipedia