Focusing on the Paintings of Asnières (Van Gogh series), analyze the The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte about the The Seine.
The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte (F304) is a painting made by van Gogh of a favored area on the Seine near Asnières.  It was made during a period where he explored the use of "dots" of paint set alongside contrasting colors, influenced by Georges Seurat, who introduced Pointillism. In 1885 Seurat made A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and used a technique of placing colored dots on a work which led a movement called "Neo-Impressionism", or "Divisionism" and "Pointillism".  Van Gogh was one of the artists later called "Post-Impressionists" who was influenced by Seurat's style that rejected realism and idealism to create a new genre based upon abstraction and simplicity. Van Gogh learned from Seurat the beauty in simplicity and a means to convey messages in a more optimistic, light way than was his work in the Netherlands.  While he could not match Seurat's precision, aspects of Pointillism were integrated into van Gogh's work.
Georges Seurat Impressionist Divisionism Impressionism Pointillism Seine Neo-Impressionism A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Post-Impressionists Asnières Netherlands