June 10th, 2018
The weather wasn’t that great, cold and rainy. We decided to hit the aquarium and the Art Institute. We weren’t the only ones with that idea, both were crowded but not overly crowded. I wanted to get to the Art Institute. I loved the play “Sunday in the Park with George” which was centered around George Seurat’s painting “A Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”. When I was in Paris, they were having a Seurat exhibition which i was excited about, imagine my disappointment when I found out this painting was in Chicago. Getting to the Art Institute has been on my list for a while.
What amazes me about this painting is that the painter created it dot by dot, This is long before cameras and pixels. When you look closely at it you see the small dots of different colors as you back away, you see a uniform color.
The Art Institute had a lot of famous art. There were a room full of Monet’s, there were a few Warhol’s, a quite a few other recognizable paintings. I was really glad that we made the time for the Art Institute.
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